Hey, all -- I've been playing around with Xen, and am now working on a script that will create Xen hosts as needed. These hosts are going to be more or less exact copies of a single master, with testing versions of a couple of applications installed in addition. I'm using LVM's snapshot capability to create snapshots of the master, rather than copying it. That saves some space, and makes management easier. The problem that I'm running into is this: sometimes the snapshot creates fine; other times, lvcreate makes a regular lvm partition, and then exits abnormally, as here: devxen0:~/xenscripts # lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% master xenmachines -wi-a- 12.00G master-swap xenmachines -wi-a- 1.00G devxen0:~/xenscripts # lvcreate -s -L5G -n test xenmachines/master LV xenmachines/test in use: not deactivating Couldn't deactivate new snapshot. devxen0:~/xenscripts # lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% master xenmachines -wi-a- 12.00G master-swap xenmachines -wi-a- 1.00G test xenmachines -wi-a- 5.00G devxen0:~/xenscripts # I've found a couple of notes around the 'net that suggest that eliminating udev from the equation will make this issue go away, but I'm a little reluctant to do that if I don't need to. Has anyone else seen this problem? Had this problem? More to the point, anyone have any suggestions how to fix this problem? Thanks! Ian -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com