Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
If you have a snapshot of a volume running... how are you supposed to
delete
it?
i.e. after you unmount it... if I just do a lvremove, I get a warning
about it being
an active volume -- so I tried doing a dmsetup remove on it first --
and that
stops the warning -- but I just noticed, I had a bunch of inactive 'cow'
volume names under 'dmsetup ls', that referred to the old snapshot
names.
so I'm guessing that using dmsetup to remove the dev first, then
lvremove is
NOT the best way to be doing this...(as it results in stuff that
needs to be cleaned
up...)... So how do I remove the volume w/o getting warnings about it
being 'active'?
I agree that the warning is broken (when LV is not otherwise mounted
or open).
I use
/usr/sbin/lvremove -f "$snappath"
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Yeah...done that... doesn't feel right
in scripts, which suppresses the warning without leaving a mess. I'm not
sure what happens if the LV is actually open in that case. Hopefully
you get an error.
Well...
I wouldn't expect that ... ... seems like -f could be for overcoming a
stuck driver -- in which case it might ignore a 'mounted' signal
from the kernel... So that's why I asked...
The odd thing -- I used lvchange -- but it wasn't a mirrored or active
volume..
I had:
....
Home-2011.08.23-18.00.56 Home+Space -wi-ao 6.49g
Home-2011.08.25-02.13.58 Home+Space -wi-ao 4.07g
*Home-2011.08.31-02.23.11 Home+Space -wi-a- 888.00m
Home-2011.08.31-07.34.53 Home+Space -wi-a- 1.86g
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The one I removed was the one with the * beside it...
The one from yesterday morning didn't get filled up and mounted
either...but I still have the diff (maybe I copy it off manually..
rather than trust it to another run of my shell
script from hell..(what started out as a fun project has turned
into a personal demon!)...
;-')
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