Today I needed to install Oracle and some other things on my PC, but I realize that it would be better to make a snapshot and then reboot Linux with this snapshot mounted instead of root. Ok, I did that and changed fstab to mount my snapRoot instead root, ok...I saw with 'df' command that it worked. And I've installed all what I wanted, some garbage too...by the way, this snapRoot doesnt means nothing to me, just for testing. And then I changed the fstab again to mount the root original. But after it, all the changes I made on snapshot was made on my root LV too. And the lvdisplay command shows something strange now, about these two LV's. The output is: --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/dutcheVG/root VG Name dutcheVG LV UUID aAN6BH-GqW3-zhtr-KeIt-BW4m-qEyw-RypMit LV Write Access read/write LV snapshot status source of /dev/dutcheVG/snap_root [INACTIVE] LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 9.27 GB Current LE 2372 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:5 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/dutcheVG/snap_root VG Name dutcheVG LV UUID cj2PD2-4OYX-eCzw-kG5y-r071-icK0-dq7FBr LV Write Access read/write LV snapshot status INACTIVE destination for /dev/dutcheVG/root LV Status NOT available LV Size 9.27 GB Current LE 2372 COW-table size 2.00 GB COW-table LE 512 Snapshot chunk size 8.00 KB Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 I donno what is really happening, does anybody can explain me? Plz!! Thanks in advance _______________________________________________ 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/