Re: vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy
On jan. 7, 17:20, Towncat <towncat.town...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Towncat <towncat.town...@gmail.com> 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
>
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> 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?
>
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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.
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