<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks for the replies. lsof mentions nothing of sda2. Below is fdsk. Any other means to check what might be blocking it?</div><div><br></div><div><i>[root@mbus5 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes</i></div><div><i>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders</i></div><div><i>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System</i></div><div><i>/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect</i></div><div><i>/dev/sda2 14 117904 946959457+ fd Linux raid autodetect</i></div><div><i>/dev/sda3 117905 121091 25599577+ fd Linux raid autodetect</i></div><div><i>/dev/sda4 121092 121601 4096575 fd Linux raid autodetect</i></div><div><i>[root@mbus5 ~]# </i></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:00 AM, Pascal BERTON wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>/dev/sda2 ? Wouldn't it sound like a swap partition or something alike ?<br>Or wouldn't it be already in use by one of the MDs ?<br>What does "fdisk -l /dev/sda" return ?<br><br>-----Message d'origine-----<br>De : <a href="mailto:drbd-user-bounces@lists.linbit.com">drbd-user-bounces@lists.linbit.com</a><br>[mailto:drbd-user-bounces@lists.linbit.com] De la part de Digimer<br>Envoyé : mercredi 11 juillet 2012 07:13<br>À : Lin Zhao<br>Cc : <a href="mailto:drbd-user@lists.linbit.com">drbd-user@lists.linbit.com</a><br>Objet : Re: [DRBD-user] Lower device already claimed error<br><br>On 07/10/2012 06:54 PM, Lin Zhao wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi I'm setting up drbd on a Linux 2.6.18-238.el5. When I'm doing <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">drbdadmin attach, i get error:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">//dev/drbd1: Failure: (114) Lower device is already claimed. This <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">usually means it is mounted./ /Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd1 disk <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/dev/sda2 /dev/sda2 internal --set-defaults --create-device' <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">terminated with exit code 10/ / /<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sda2 should by no means be mounted:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/[root@mbus5 ~]# mount -l/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">//dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)/ /proc on /proc type proc (rw)/ <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)/ /devpts on /dev/pts type devpts <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(rw,gid=5,mode=620)/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">//dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)/<br></blockquote><br>Could it be claimed by LVM or similar? *Something* has it... Any clues in<br>'lsof'?<br><br>--<br>Digimer<br>Papers and Projects: <a href="https://alteeve.com">https://alteeve.com</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>drbd-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:drbd-user@lists.linbit.com">drbd-user@lists.linbit.com</a><br>http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>drbd-user mailing list<br>drbd-user@lists.linbit.com<br>http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>