On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:07:29AM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
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':
something is using it
try looking in /sys/block/dm-4/holders, fuser, lsof ...
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?
252 is the dynamic major assigned to device-mapper on your system
Is my real Home partition on 252,1?
before you created the snapshot your Home device was
/dev/mapper/Home-Home (aka dm-2)
in order to create a snapshot lvm will use 4 devices
1) Home-Home-real (linear) which has the same mapping as Home-Home
before the
snapshot took place
2) Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55-cow (linear) which maps the space that
will
contains the COW data
3) Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55 (snapshot) this is a combination of (1)
and
(2) in order to show the visible snapshot
4) Home-Home (snapshot-origin) this device replaces your Home device
(keeping the same minor number)
so after taking the snapshot your Home device is still
/dev/mapper/Home-Home, which maps to /dev/mapper/Home-Home-real, but
before any write to /dev/mapper/Home-Home-real the original data is
saved to Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55-cow, so Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55
(which is based on Home-Home-real and Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55-cow)
will
not change
please look also at linux/Documentation/device-mapper/snapshot.txt
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,
details please
Should I be backing up Home-Home-real? That doesn't
seem right...
usually one backs up the snapshot, which is supposed to be a
point-in-time copy of the original, so i think you should backup
Home-2010.06.27--06.18.55
L.
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