Re: vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy
On jan. 7, 17:20, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However, this is not the swap the system is using (that's on another partition), and I turned even that off (swapoff). /proc/ swaps, swapon -s, ps xaf, lsof do not give a hint (to me) -- what could be holding that logical volume? (The other lv on that vg can be deactivated without a problem, that's root, also unused). Thanks, tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried several ways, formatted the lv with mke2fs, switched to single user, rebooted, and there is just no way to get this particular logical volume inactive. The strange thing is, there is no problem with the other lv on the same vg, that can be activated right away. But this one: # lvchange -an /dev/vg_md0/swap LV vg_md0/swap in use: not deactivating What uses is? It is no longer swap, I even changed my fstab from LABELs to drives. So what now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I do not seem to have received a hint... I worked around the problem, booted from a rescue CD and removed the lv from there. It seems the rescue CD does not activate the swap and the logical volume can thus be deleted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy
I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However, this is not the swap the system is using (that's on another partition), and I turned even that off (swapoff). /proc/ swaps, swapon -s, ps xaf, lsof do not give a hint (to me) -- what could be holding that logical volume? (The other lv on that vg can be deactivated without a problem, that's root, also unused). Thanks, tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy
On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However, this is not the swap the system is using (that's on another partition), and I turned even that off (swapoff). /proc/ swaps, swapon -s, ps xaf, lsof do not give a hint (to me) -- what could be holding that logical volume? (The other lv on that vg can be deactivated without a problem, that's root, also unused). Thanks, tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried several ways, formatted the lv with mke2fs, switched to single user, rebooted, and there is just no way to get this particular logical volume inactive. The strange thing is, there is no problem with the other lv on the same vg, that can be activated right away. But this one: # lvchange -an /dev/vg_md0/swap LV vg_md0/swap in use: not deactivating What uses is? It is no longer swap, I even changed my fstab from LABELs to drives. So what now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
