On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Russell Coker wrote:
I just tried rebooted that machine. The LVM setup seems mangled and it doesn't boot successfully.
Ah yum. You need to make a copy of the most recent /etc/lvm/archive/ lvm config (the lvm tools should archive automatically) and delete the snapshop. (just do a diff between that file and the previous archived lvm config to see which lines to delete), then vgcfgrestore the edited sans-snapshot file.
Though, if your rootfs is on LVM you possibly will have difficulty completing above[1].
I think recentish Arjan kernels have dm-mirror support included, which removes this problem. However, it seems quite flakey. Eg, taking multiple snapshots of same filesystem seems to kill things..
1. A good reason to not put root on LVM - your rootfs is your primary rescue partition.. Why would you need LVM for root fs anyway?
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