On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote: > rm -rf /tmp/test > mkdir /tmp/test > # Put around 60MB of files into /tmp/test > find /tmp/test -type f | xargs md5sum > /tmp/sum.pre Ran the last four lines several times on my Centos-5 system with /tmp and the snapshot VG on different volume groups. (/tmp on rootvg) # du /tmp/test 84688 /tmp/test # lvs backvg2/DFL LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% DFL backvg2 -wi-a- 10.00G > lvcreate --size 2G --snapshot /dev/backvg2/DFL --name DFL_snap > find /tmp/test -type f | xargs md5sum > /tmp/sum.post > lvremove -f /dev/backvg2/DFL_snap > diff -u /tmp/sum.pre /tmp/sum. Doesn't seem to fail for us. (Sighs with relief.) -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/