On Saturday 01 September 2007 18:30, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > Hi, > > On a 10.3beta2 couple days ago my /dev/sdb1 was perfectly mountable. It was > not in in fstab on purpose, mind you. Then something got updated by > opensuse updater and sdb1 was not mountable anymore. > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > said "already mounted or /mnt busy" which was so not true. Errk. > > Googling I found people almost back in the last century debating this. The > good advice pointed towards device-mapper. > > Turned out that device-mapper had grabbed sdb. So can _I_ do something with > it too? Like use my hard disk? Not that I ever configured, invoked, > worshipped device-mapper at all. > > dmsetup ls > gave me 2 strings garbled together from device-mapper lingo and the name > and serial number of my disk. Like > linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number (253, 0) and > linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number_part1 (253, 1) > > dmsetup remove linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number_part1 and > dmsetup remove linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number > and > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > and things are back the way they were. > > Am I missing something deep? Plus: Apart from police people who in this > whole wide world thinks having serial numbers of your disks all over the > system was cool? Could that be, like, an _option_ please? My face turns all > yellow when I look at /etc/fstab these days. Can someone tell me the > advantages of this? > > Thanks, and thank you for a pretty amazing beta2. > Wolfgang
It seems to be the same as this: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=307044 but looking another similar bug, leads to: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=302422 origin. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
