From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: "François Valenduc" <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem to remove LVM snaphots
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:04:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCB8FEE.9030802@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BCAC8B2.7090505@tvcablenet.be>
On 04/18/2010 04:54 AM, Fran�ois Valenduc wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am using gentoo and I use LVM snapshots to make backups of my system.
> Unfortunately, I always have a problem to remove these. LVM always
> complains that it can't remove an open logical volume. However, the
> snapshot is unmounted when I try to remove it. It seems it's only
> possible to remove the snapshot if the corresponding volume is
> deactivated. So, I am forced to boot on a live cd to remove the snapshot
> of my root partition. Is this really normal ?
No, it is not normal. Obviously something on your system has the
snapshot open. Perhaps it is being auto mounted?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-18 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-18 8:54 [linux-lvm] Problem to remove LVM snaphots François Valenduc
2010-04-18 23:04 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2010-04-19 16:47 ` François Valenduc
2010-04-20 5:48 ` Luca Berra
2010-04-26 9:56 ` Zdenek Kabelac
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