Hi all
I'm using lvm2-2.01.08-2.1 on fc4, kernel 2.6.16-1 with linux-vserver patches.
A while ago, I mistakenly created a 39GB read-write snapshot of my /vservers partition (which, btw, seemed to work). But after some time this partition got to an overflow and since then I can't get rid of it anymore. See the lvdisplay output below.
lvchange -an or --refresh gives me a message "Can't change snapshot logical volume "vservers_snapshot"".
lvremove lets me wait, then "top" shows 100% IO-Wait but does not come to an end (at least after an hour). I don't know how much patience I would need, this box is rather fast otherwise (dual xeon 2.8GHz w/ SATA drives).
Rebooting does not help anything.
Is there a safe way to simply get rid of this snapshot? Any help would much be appreciated.
Regards
--Marcel
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lv00_vservers
VG Name vg00
LV UUID 9oELP3-2l7d-gTML-2xg2-unTu-znP0-qVd3Mc
LV Write Access read/write
LV snapshot status source of
/dev/vg00/vservers_snapshot [INACTIVE]
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 39,06 GB
Current LE 625
Segments 1
Allocation contiguous
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:9
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/vservers_snapshot
VG Name vg00
LV UUID cQEj3z-V2jD-QOCl-3Yea-ETQZ-Egj9-2B7nd2
LV Write Access read/write
LV snapshot status INACTIVE destination for /dev/vg00/lv00_vservers
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 39,06 GB
Current LE 625
Segments 1
Snapshot chunk size 4,00 KB
Allocated to snapshot 100,00%
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:8
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