fsck on LVM snapshots
- by Alpha01
I'm trying to do some file system checks using LVM snapshots of our Logical Volumes to see if any of them have dirty file systems.
The problem that I have is that our LVM only has one Volume Group with no available space. I was able to do fsck's on some of the logical volumes using a loopback file system. However my question is, is it possible to create a 200GB loopback file system, and saved it on the same partition/logical volume that I'll be taking a snapshot of? Is LVM smart enough to not take a snapshot copy of the actual snapshot?
[root@server z]# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name Web2-Vol
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 29
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 6
Open LV 6
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 544.73 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 139450
Alloc PE / Size 139450 / 544.73 GB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID BrVwNz-h1IO-ZETA-MeIf-1yq7-fHpn-fwMTcV
[root@server z]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 9.7G 3.6G 5.6G 40% /
/dev/sda1 251M 29M 210M 12% /boot
/dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-var
12G 1.1G 11G 10% /var
/dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-var--spool
12G 184M 12G 2% /var/spool
/dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-var--lib--mysql
30G 15G 14G 52% /var/lib/mysql
/dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-usr
13G 3.3G 8.9G 27% /usr
/dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-z
468G 197G 267G 43% /z
/dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-tmp
3.0G 76M 2.8G 3% /tmp
tmpfs 7.9G 92K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
The logical volume in question is /dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-z. I'm afraid if I created the loopback file system in /dev/mapper/Web2--Vol-z and take a snapshot of it, the disk size will be trippled in size, thus running out of disk space available.
