Snapshot of LVM logical volume - a brief howto

Recently, after an OS updated and rebooted, I was not able to login to the desktop environment. When that happened, I thought to myself, “I wish I could just do a quick EBS snapshot like I would on the cloud before running any OS updates.” On my Linux desktop, the root volume is an LVM volume, I knew that snapshot was possible, but never tried to create one before. A friend at work encouraged that I should make use of it, and it was not that hard to get started. Well, let’s see how it goes as I’m about to explore how LVM snapshot works on my desktop. ...

July 26, 2024 · 3 min · 491 words · kenno