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Fedora and LVM

Fedora and LVM

Posted Oct 31, 2012 20:11 UTC (Wed) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537)
In reply to: Fedora and LVM by paulj
Parent article: Fedora and LVM

Not sure what you mean by "writable LV" – LVM snapshots are already writable. If you want an wholly independent LV – perhaps you could just copy the snapshot to a new LV.

lvconvert --merge merges a snapshot back into the origin, for when you only want the snapshot's contents and not the origin's anymore.

(Hypothetically, at least. I've not yet tried it myself.)


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Fedora and LVM

Posted Oct 31, 2012 22:28 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

They're writable now? That's changed then, and good news for me. Thanks! I'd heard DM might have merge back support somewhere, but hadn't noticed the LVM UI for it was in lvconvert - I've been looking at lvchange the whole time.

Thanks :)

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