The basic concept is you create a snapshot LV lvcreate -L1G -s -n snap /dev/vg/lv1 This will create a 1G snapshot logical volume called snap for the original logical volume /dev/vg/lv1 If this has completed successfully then you can mount it. mount -t xfs -o nouuid /dev/vg/snap /mnt/snapshot This will mount an xfs snapshot. The -o nouuid is needed so that mount will not complain and refuse to mount an xfs volume with identical uuid's This is a good tutorial: http://www.sistina.com/lvm_howtos/lvm_howto/Common_tasks.html Is this what you are after or are you having problems with lvcreate segfaulting and kernel Oopes? On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 01:24, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > I've seen a lot of posts that people do have this working. I was hoping > someone could give a good summary for the steps involved. The goal is > being able to mount the snapshots volume while the live filesystem is > mounted. I see bits and pieces of the answer in various posts, so could > someone break it down for me in a single mail? > > Thanks > -jeremy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Adrian Head (Public Key available on request.)