So after you fdisk and reboot the partition magically turn from swap back to raid? Odd Just to remind you that if you urgently need swap, you should be able to create and use swap space on a loopback device. Not elegant, but usable.
Philip Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: > Yes I did manage... > > The problem was in the BIOS which was halting because there was no > keyboard. Got an support guy at GO to change the BIOS for me. > > On 8/2/07, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Did you say you managed to reboot it remotely without problems? Because last >> time I tried it didn't come up again. >> >> If it does reboot ok, we could put the commands to delete the device >> somewhere >> early in the startup files and reboot it. >> >> >> >> On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:09:10 Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: >> >>> The latest forums link is the most detailed but still does not provide >>> a solution for the device is busy error. >>> >>> Does anybody know of any tools to see what is claiming usage of md1 ? >>> >>> Raphael >>> >>> On 8/1/07, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Another one. This seems to describe the same problem - that of a RAID >>>> device which stubbornly keeps reappearing: >>>> >>>> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/731115.html >>>> >>>> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 17:09:35 Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ramon... I am the culprit for that commenting out. I commented out the >>>>> md1 as well as the entry in the fstab. I fdisked the drives and >>>>> remarked the type of the partition as swap instead of raid. I then >>>>> rebooted the server in the hope that nobody tries to keep the devices >>>>> for md1 in use. I still couldn't delete the old raid device. You can >>>>> mark the drives as failed, but you can't remove them. >>>>> >>>>> I am still at a loss. Oh and btw... yes you do not mount your swap >>>>> partitions. You do swapon and swapoff. mkswap creates the appropriate >>>>> space correctly. Its just the md1 device that gets in the way it >>>>> seems. >>>>> _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
