[linux-lvm] Cannot mount: device in use
S. Michael Denton
smdenton at bellsouth.net
Sat Jun 30 13:55:14 UTC 2001
Hello, just had a power outage in my area and when my system came back up,
all my lvm'd reiserfs volumes reported that they were already mounted, even
though they were not. I have seen this several times after system crashes
and each time, the only way to resolve the problem is to login in single-user
mode, umount the device (which reports <device>: not mounted) and then
reboot... after that, the devices go through the journal replay as expected.
As I do not have any lvm'd ext2fs, I will shortly create a small one, crash
the system, and see if the problem happens with the lvm'd ext2fs or not, but
until that time, here're my specifics:
linux 2.2.19
reiserfs 3.5.32
lvm 0.9.1beta7
Also, someone previously asked if my mnttab file or /proc/mounts might have
been the issue, so in rcS i had it copy them elsewhere before it removed the
mnttab and started trying to mount filesystems... /proc/mounts only showed
/dev/root on / and procfs on /proc... mnttab didn't have the external volumes
in them either.
Thanks.
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Scott Denton
smdenton at bellsouth.net
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