Manually remove snapshot

frantek

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May 30, 2009
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Hi,

on a LVM setup I did some thing stupid. I manually (edit conf file ...) added LVM disks of VM A to VM B. Now VM B is in production and I've noticed that there is a snapshot on VM A.

My question is: Can I safely use "lvremove" to remove the LVM snapshots?

I think the answer is: yes ... but, it's a production system :)

TIA
Matthias
 
Hi,

Thin-LVM every snapshot is independent,
so yes you can do it without problems.

I think the answer is: yes ... but, it's a production system :)
But if you unsure make a test VM and test it before ;-)
 
Thanks ... it looks like this:

Code:
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/vm-301-disk-1
  LV Name                vm-301-disk-1
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                2AL3Iz-zjdx-Hsfl-3Yz3-zTyO-wYGT-d3woTM
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time pve01, 2017-07-06 16:03:12 +0200
  LV Pool name           data
  LV Status              available
  # open                 0
  LV Size                120,00 GiB
  Mapped size            99,77%
  Current LE             30720
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:7

Code:
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/snap_vm-301-disk-1_PP
  LV Name                snap_vm-301-disk-1_PP
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                1mZvUR-KHf4-qm9f-ojCh-6U3i-mGl4-tvh2sC
  LV Write Access        read only
  LV Creation host, time pve01, 2017-12-13 08:28:32 +0100
  LV Pool name           data
  LV Thin origin name    vm-301-disk-1
  LV Status              NOT available
  LV Size                120,00 GiB
  Current LE             30720
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto



Hi,

Thin-LVM every snapshot is independent,
so yes you can do it without problems.


But if you unsure make a test VM and test it before ;-)

Did so already :)
 
When you look, at my last post - it IS "Thin-LVM" and removing the snapshot is no problem, right ?
 
Yes correct.
 

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