The tools do not support root snapshots properly yet - whether or not they work is down to chance. To remove one reliably you need lvremove from a rescue environment - you're lucky lvremove is refusing to proceed - if it got further it could hang your machine. In principle you can recover without rebooting but you'll need to write a custom script to run various dmsetup commands from a ramdisk, for example, and then fix up the lvm2 metadata with activation disabled. [If you learn how snapshots are created/destroyed you can work out what to do: sorry, it's too much for me to explain here. This is what the tools will want enhancing to do to provide proper support.] Older kernels like yours however can get into a state where recovery is only possible by writing directly to kernel memory, if you already ran certain commands in the wrong sequence. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/
