Bards1888 wrote: >I've upgraded my x86_64 4.2 box to the latest kernel 2.6.9.34 and tried >an lvm snapshot. It worked fine and I was able to mount the snapshot >etc. Now I cannot seem to remove the snapshot. If I try a 'lvremove' >it asks if I want to remove the 'active' snapshot, if I say yes it just >hangs and the box goes to 99% wait io, however the disk lights do not >come on during this. The lvremove process is not straceable so I've got >no idea whats going on with it. > >Luckily I chose to snapshot /tmp so it is not a show stopper. What I >did to get around it was to comment out my tmp lv from fstab and just >allow /tmp to be part of the root filesystem on the root lv. I >deliberately filled up the snapshot so that it was marked inactive but >it still thinks it is active when I run the lvremove command again. I >also tried to lvremove the tmp lv, not the snapshot, and it said it >couldnt remove the lv while there was a snapshot. > > >I found a thread on the forums where Karanbir Singh states that this >sort of thing was broken in early 4 series but may work in 4.3. > > >Does anyone know how I can clean this up ? > > >Cheers, > > >Bards. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Ok, for the record, I was able to remove the snapshot when I booted from a system rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/), it came up with the vgs disable and I was able to remove the old snapshot. I will not be trying snapshots again in a hurry !