Hello everybody, I am using gentoo and I use LVM snapshots to make backups of my system. Unfortunately, I always have a problem to remove these. LVM always complains that it can't remove an open logical volume. However, the snapshot is unmounted when I try to remove it. It seems it's only possible to remove the snapshot if the corresponding volume is deactivated. So, I am forced to boot on a live cd to remove the snapshot of my root partition. Is this really normal ? I already had that problem a long time ago and I thought it was solved if a do a sync before removing the snapshot. It seems it's no more sufficient. I am using LVM 2.02.56-r2, udev 149 and kernel 2.6.33.2 What is even more strange is that I can't even remove snapshot of logical volumes which I have never mount. In fact, I do the following steps: lvcreate -L5G -n test gentoo lvcreate -n test1 -L1G -s /dev/gentoo/test lvremove gentoo/test1 And, I always get this error: Can't remove open logical volume "test1" Am I forgetting something ? Until 2 month agos, this worked without any error. Does anybody have an idea about this problem ? Thanks in advance for your help, François Valenduc _______________________________________________ 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/
