[DRBD-user] Lower device already claimed error

Digimer lists at alteeve.ca
Wed Jul 11 07:13:22 CEST 2012

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On 07/10/2012 06:54 PM, Lin Zhao wrote:
> Hi I'm setting up drbd on a Linux 2.6.18-238.el5. When I'm doing
> drbdadmin attach, i get error:
> 
> //dev/drbd1: Failure: (114) Lower device is already claimed. This
> usually means it is mounted./
> /Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd1 disk /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2 internal
> --set-defaults --create-device' terminated with exit code 10/
> /
> /
> 
> sda2 should by no means be mounted:
> /[root at mbus5 ~]# mount -l/
> //dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)/
> /proc on /proc type proc (rw)/
> /sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)/
> /devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)/
> //dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)/
> /tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)/
> /none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)/

Could it be claimed by LVM or similar? *Something* has it... Any clues
in 'lsof'?

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