[linux-lvm] Dumb LVM question

Heinz Mauelshagen mauelshagen at redhat.com
Tue Dec 6 10:56:00 UTC 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> With LVM 2, how do I kill any and all snapshots.
> 
> With LVM 1 it was "vgscan -r".
> 
> I need to be able to do this with a script, so I'm hoping lvm 2 has a
> way to kill all snapshots without knowing their names, etc.  If not, I
> guess I can script up something to do the job.

Yes, you could use something like:

<quick_hacking_mode>
lvs|perl -ne '@a = split /\s+/,$_;if ($a[3] =~ /^s/) {print "/dev/$a[2]/$a[1]\n";}'|xargs lvremove -f
</quick_hacking_mode>


> 
> Greg
> --
> Greg Freemyer
> The Norcross Group
> Forensics for the 21st Century
> 
> 
> --
> Greg Freemyer
> The Norcross Group
> Forensics for the 21st Century
> 
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