> <snip> > xfs_freeze -f "$SCRATCH_MNT" > [ $? != 0 ] && echo xfs_freeze -f "$SCRATCH_MNT" failed > ( > lvcreate --snapshot --size 1G --name scratch_snap "$VG/scratch"\ > > /dev/null 2>&1 > I'm confused. I've gotten the impression from other posts to this list that one should not use xfs_freeze before creating snapshots. The reason being that xfs_freeze suspends the filesystem, and then lvcreate will also attempt to suspend the filesystem... ??? Kristina _______________________________________________ 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/