Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 01/14/2011 04:45 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > > Felix Frank wrote: >>>> >>> How can i create the image file kpartx uses ? >> >> You don't. Just create nodes for your very snapshot. >> > > Ok, i try to unnderstand: > With lvcreate -s i create the snapshot. This creates an entry /dev/vgxxx/lvxxx. > Then i use kpartx for ... what ? Creating a second entry in /dev/... ? > > I tested this: > created a snapshot /dev/vg1/lv_home_snapshot. > kpartx -lv /dev/vg1/lv_home_snapshot says ... nothing. "lv_home_snapshot"? Is that an LV that contains a partitioned disk image? If it is, it's not clear to me why no partitions are displayed. I've used this with an image of a VM harddrive before. Sorry to be not quite helpful. Cheers, Felix