On Apr 14, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Asle Næss wrote: > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Joel Becker wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 06:32:12AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote: >>> Could be that the device has been claimed by some other entity. Like lvm, >>> multipath, etc. >> >> Yeah, the EBUSY would make that seem likely. Is there anything >> in /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/holders/? > > It's not claimed by LVM, but I'll dig a bit further into multipath. > > /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/holders/ has no files: > > $ ls -lh /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/holders/ > total 0
And yes, it was the multipath that held the device. Solution was to mount the mulitpath device in /dev/mapper/ and not /dev/sda1 directly. Thanks! Asle _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users