On 01/13/2012 04:42 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> On 01/12/2012 09:08 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> >>>> I was playing around with kpartx on 2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 and did: >>>> kpartx -l /bin/ls >>>> Now I get "text file busy" when trying to run ls. >>>> How does one undo that? >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> Pádraig. >>> >>> Run losetup -a, you find that one of loopback devices is assigned to >>> /bin/ls (for example /dev/loop0). Then, run losetup -d /dev/loop0 to >>> remove that block device. Then, you can use /bin/ls again. >> >> Cool that works. >> It's still a bug though right? >> I.E. `kpartx -l` has side effects (only when it can't map partitions). >> >> cheers, >> Pádraig. > > It may be a bug. You can report it to kpartx developers. > > Mikulas Sorry, http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/ pointed here. I've copied Christophe directly. thanks, Pádraig. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
