[linux-lvm] summary of what I need to do to mount snapshot on XFS

Jeremy Hansen jeremy at troubletext.com
Wed Jan 9 14:34:01 UTC 2002


On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 05:02, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:06:04PM +1000, Adrian Head wrote:
> > The basic concept is you create a snapshot LV
> > lvcreate -L1G -s -n snap /dev/vg/lv1
> > 
> > This will create a 1G snapshot logical volume called snap for the original 
> > logical volume /dev/vg/lv1
> > 
> > If this has completed successfully then you can mount it.
> > 
> > mount -t xfs -o nouuid /dev/vg/snap /mnt/snapshot
> 
> You may also need -o norecovery too.

Ahh, it looks as if this did the trick.  I was able to mount it!

-jeremy
 
> patrick
> 
> 
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