Hello! On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:21:59PM +0200, Helge Bahmann wrote: > > I *have* to bring the vg into a consistent state and I urgently need to > > drop the snapshot volume -- is there any tool to manipulate lvm purely in > > userspace that can simply delete the snapshot volume? > > LVM2 userspace tools would do this: > Source code from http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/ > To stop them talking to the kernel: > configure --disable-devmapper > before compiling. hm... the documentation does not clearly state that it does handle lvm1 meta-data correctly, but I assume it does? > And of course you must deactivate all your LVs before using > them (ie vgchange -an). certainly Thanks for your help so far! -- Helge Bahmann <hcb@chaoticmind.net> /| \__ The past: Smart users in front of dumb terminals /_|____\ _/\ | __) $ ./configure \\ \|__/__| checking whether build environment is sane... yes \\/___/ | checking for AIX... no (we already did this) | _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/