Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
It's used by RAID, by the looks of it. What does mdadm say? If it is a RAID member, then you need to specify the /dev/mdX device. Digimer On 07/11/2012 01:30 PM, Lin Zhao wrote: > Thanks for the replies. lsof mentions nothing of sda2. Below is fdsk. > Any other means to check what might be blocking it? > > /[root at mbus5 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda/ > / > / > /Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes/ > /255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders/ > /Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes/ > / > / > / Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System/ > //dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid > autodetect/ > //dev/sda2 14 117904 946959457+ fd Linux raid > autodetect/ > //dev/sda3 117905 121091 25599577+ fd Linux raid > autodetect/ > //dev/sda4 121092 121601 4096575 fd Linux raid > autodetect/ > /[root at mbus5 ~]# / > > On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:00 AM, Pascal BERTON wrote: > >> /dev/sda2 ? Wouldn't it sound like a swap partition or something alike ? >> Or wouldn't it be already in use by one of the MDs ? >> What does "fdisk -l /dev/sda" return ? >> >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De : drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com >> <mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com> >> [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] De la part de Digimer >> Envoyé : mercredi 11 juillet 2012 07:13 >> À : Lin Zhao >> Cc : drbd-user at lists.linbit.com <mailto:drbd-user at lists.linbit.com> >> Objet : Re: [DRBD-user] Lower device already claimed error >> >> 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'? >> >> -- >> Digimer >> Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> drbd-user mailing list >> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com <mailto:drbd-user at lists.linbit.com> >> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >> >> _______________________________________________ >> drbd-user mailing list >> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com