DJA wrote: > Shutdown of a box went fine last night. This morning, booting stopped > with this message: > > "Device resource busy while trying to open /dev/hd3. Filesystem mounted > or opened exclusively by another program?" > > Fdisk displays the drive and it's partitions as usual. > > Partition types are hdc1 boot; hdc2 swap; hdc3 LVM. / (root is on hdc3. > > However df shows only the / logical volume. None of the other other > logical volumes (/home, /tmp, /var, /usr/local/) seem to be mounted > which suggests that is what the message is saying. > > I've never seen this message before and don't know what to do about it. > Any suggestions? >
Hmm, can you boot to Knoppix or some other live CD that supports LVM? In that environment you may get some useful error messages when trying to do things like pvs vgs lvs and mounting stuff Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
