Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>
> The Thursday 2008-01-10 at 08:46 +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>
>> "Michael Kershaw" <> wrote:
>>> Could be something as simple as the device-mapper having a file handle
>>> to the partition already. Don't know if you've fiddled in that area
>>> at all though.
>> I haven't fiddled around with that, at least not intentionally. But
>> this was
>> the missing hint. I found a /dev/mapper/1transtecT5016R_0-part1 that I
>> was
>> able to mount without a problem.
>
> But why? Why was that dev mapper thing there? :-?
>
> I heard of this problem another time, and we couldn't track it.
>
The /dev/mapper thing is the result of a bios raid install. Yast
creates those things to map multiple disk to a single partition in raid.
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