(re-posting after 4h30m) Oops, some software versions might be helpful... OS: CentOS 4.4 Kernel: 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux LVM2: lvm2-2.02.21-5.el4 Device-mapper: device-mapper-1.02.17-3.0.1.el4 Dane Miller wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently started getting errors when creating a snapshot. I'm new > to LVM2 troubleshooting, so please point me in the right direction if > these are obvious error messages. > > The script 'amanda_snapshot.pl' removes yesterday's snapshot and creates > a new snapshot, which amanda backs up some time later. Here's the > output of this script, including error messages: > > amanda_snapshot.pl: umount /media/vm1optsnap > amanda_snapshot.pl: lvremove -f /dev/vg0/vm1optsnap > Logical volume "vm1optsnap" successfully removed > amanda_snapshot.pl: lvcreate --snapshot --name vm1optsnap --size > 10G /dev/vg0/vm1opt > /dev/dm-9: stat failed: No such file or directory > Path /dev/dm-9 no longer valid for device(253,9) > Aborting - please provide new pathname for what used to be /dev/dm-9 > /dev/dm-10: stat failed: No such file or directory > Path /dev/dm-10 no longer valid for device(253,10) > Aborting - please provide new pathname for what used to be /dev/dm-10 > /dev/dm-11: stat failed: No such file or directory > Path /dev/dm-11 no longer valid for device(253,11) > Aborting - please provide new pathname for what used to be /dev/dm-11 > Logical volume "vm1optsnap" created > amanda_snapshot.pl: mount /dev/vg0/vm1optsnap /media/vm1optsnap > > > What would cause these /dev/dm-* errors? How can I find out what's > going on? > > > Dane _______________________________________________ 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/
