On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:29 PM Sreyan Chakravarty
wrote:
> Do I have to reinstall my system for thin snapshots ?
>
> Can't I just clone my filesystem and then create a thin pool ?
>
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>
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Used partclone to restore my backup.
Did not have re-install but did have to delete old volumes.
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:50 PM Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> You can, it's just typically easier for most users to re-install than to
> execute the necessary steps to convert the system after the fact.
>
> If you have sufficient space then you can just create a thin pool, copy
> your existing file
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 05:29:36PM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:34 PM Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> > It means re-installing but if the system is set up to use a thin pool
> > and thin provisioned logical volumes from the start then you can use
> > snapshots without any
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:34 PM Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> OK - I understand what's going on in your environment now, thanks!
>
> Unfortunately it's not possible to have a writable external origin when
> using device-mapper thin provisioned snapshots. To be able to write to
> the origin while
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:40:44AM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> I am looking into thin snapshots since the older COW snapshots delay my
> boot enormously.
>
> My normal root fs is on a normal "non-thin" volume.
>
> So to make a snapshot I have boot into a live cd environment then set my
>
Il 2020-11-21 04:10 Sreyan Chakravarty ha scritto:
I mean what is the point of creating a snapshot if I can't change my
original volume ?
Is there some sort of resolution ?
External thin snapshot are useful to share a common, read-only base (ie:
a "gold-master" image) with different writable
I am looking into thin snapshots since the older COW snapshots delay my
boot enormously.
My normal root fs is on a normal "non-thin" volume.
So to make a snapshot I have boot into a live cd environment then set my
root fs volume to read-only and then set it to inactive.
Commands:
sudo
