lvremove -v /dev/Home/2010.06.27-06.18.55 Using logical volume(s) on command line Can't remove open logical volume "2010.06.27-06.18.55" But it isn't mounted. So why is it saying it is 'open': ll /dev/mapper shows: crw-rw---- 1 10, 58 2010-02-02 21:08 control brw-r----- 1 252, 4 2010-02-02 21:08 Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55 brw-r----- 1 252, 3 2010-02-02 21:08 Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55-cow brw-r----- 1 252, 2 2010-02-02 21:08 Home-Home brw-r----- 1 252, 1 2010-02-02 21:08 Home-Home-real brw-r----- 1 252, 0 2010-02-02 21:08 Home-Share brw-r----- 1 252, 5 2010-02-02 21:08 Space-Backup brw-r----- 1 252, 11 2010-06-29 06:40 Space-boot brw-r----- 1 252, 6 2010-06-29 06:40 Space-root brw-r----- 1 252, 7 2010-06-28 17:45 Space-Torrents brw-r----- 1 252, 8 2010-06-29 06:40 Space-usr brw-r----- 1 252, 9 2010-06-29 06:40 Space-var brw-r----- 1 252, 10 2010-06-29 06:40 Space-var_cache So 252 is the mapper device? Is my real Home partition on 252,1? I just got a backup error when I tried to backup Home, which would correspond to 252,2 above. It thinks it is no longer the same file system as the previous backup, Should I be backing up Home-Home-real? That doesn't seem right... _______________________________________________ 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/