Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> "David C. Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> "David C. Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am unable to mount a partition, whenever I try I get the following
>>> error
>>>>> message:
>>>>>
>>>>> mount /export
>>>>> mount: /dev/sdc1 already mounted or /export busy
>>>>>
>> Is /export a Windows NTFS formatted file system that you run dual-boot.
>> If so, like was mentioned earlier, your last Windows session did not
>> shut down cleanly and will not mount until you reboot and let XP of God
>> forbid Vista clean up after themselves. If that is the problem, it will
>> mount fine after that.
>>
>> If not, I'm running out of ammo except to look at the partition in a
>> partitioner. All that data is backed up - right?
>
> as mentioned in another mail, the device mapper made kept sdc1 busy.
> in /etc/blkid.tab I found these lines:
>
> <device DEVNO="0x0802" TIME="1198055523"
> UUID="212b4536-513f-4177-8d91-afc2b26be284" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/sda2</device>
> <device DEVNO="0x0811" TIME="1198055523"
> UUID="83db89c9-88a7-4c09-8026-01a9bd71c757" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb1</device>
> <device DEVNO="0x0812" TIME="1198055523"
> UUID="60a371a6-6e24-4a3d-bfe9-d3491f08cd83" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb2</device>
> <device DEVNO="0x0813" TIME="1198055523"
> UUID="0d8ec0ca-9670-4e87-a37e-aac3914a7651" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb3</device>
> <device DEVNO="0x0815" TIME="1198055523"
> UUID="cf71aa66-2a51-4596-967b-bc12faec5438" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb5</device>
> <device DEVNO="0x0821" TIME="1198055523"
> UUID="51bba5c7-acda-4019-94d8-691103f30616" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdc1</device>
> <device DEVNO="0xfd03" TIME="1199870056"
> UUID="4e4b8361-0c9f-47c5-ac47-34398148d78e" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/dm-3</device>
>
> The UUID for /dev/sdc1 and /dev/dm-3 are the same, so I remove the last line
> and rebooted the system. My hope was that the /dev/mapper/... stuff for the
> sdc disk will disappear, but that was not the case, the removed line appeare
> again in the /etc/blkid.tab file, /dev/sdc1 still busy, and I only was able
> to mount /dev/mapper/....
>
> I wonder why this is not happen to the /dev/sdb* partitions. I haven't
> configure anything related to that intentionally. The sdb and sdc are two
> disks with each 1.7 TB, it is just that sdb is divided into a lot partitions
> where sdc is just one large partition. I have no idea why it should but
> maybe it depends somehow on the size of the partition?
>
> I have the disks connected via SCSI to another 10.2 box, there does
> the /etc/blkid.tab file not exist, and I can just mount /dev/sdc1 there.
> dm_mod module is loaded on both systems.
>
>
> also a rpm -qf /etc/blkid.tab says file /etc/blkid.tab is not owned by any
> package.
>
> So I am still wondering, why this happens to /dev/sdc but not to /dev/sdb,
> any idea?
>
> cheers
> Sebastian
>
It may be a bug similar to the one I encountered with Yast's definition
of the /dev/mapper raid partitions. File a bug report and list the
following as related:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350573
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