On 8/15/07, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> > 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
>
> I found the problem is my bad. I'd just upgraded to FC6. I did a fresh
> install so everything was nuked. After the install, I was restoring some
> of the data (/home, /usr/local, etc.). I restored the /etc/fstab file.
>
> Therein lies the problem: The current installation is using LVM. The
> previous (FC4) did not.
>
> So / gets mounted (LogGroup00-LogVol00) but the other volumes don't. I
> can read fstab, mtab, do df, etc. But I cannot edit fstab as the
> filesystem is mounted read-only - I only have access through the disk
> repair utility (to which I was dropped during the aborted boot process).
>
> How do I repair/replace the incorrect fstab file at this point?
# mount -o remount,rw /
# vi /etc/fstab
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