Re: lvm: creating a snapshot
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote:
>> > Can I create a snapshot over the network on disks an another
>> > machine?
>>
>> No
>
> You can, but not trivially. Use nbd, iscsi or similar to share a block
> device over the network, and then use lvm on top of that.
So it would have to be at least a partition? I don't have one free
... I could use the swap partition temporarily for something like that.
Once I added such a partition to a volume group, can I simply remove it
from the VG when I don't need it anymore?
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