On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:32:52AM +0200, ronald wrote: > Michal Jaegermann wrote: > >>>??? Neither fuser, nor lsof, nor searches for anything else reveal > >>>why /dev/sdb1 could be "in use". > > my disk was not accessible caused by a membership in a raid system month > ago, but still containing a label/signature from that. > i could fdisk the drive, but couldn't not swap on it or delete/create > partitions/file systems on it. You were right that problems were caused by dmraid. This is a "recycled" disk and I was not even really aware that in the past it was used in RAID. It turns out that mkinitrd adds such disk to dm map and after a boot every partition on such disk either "does not exist", even if it is there, or is "busy". All of that without a trace of a hint anywhere why there is a problem. Talk about the least surprise! It is not enough to remove that signature with 'dmraid -r -E ...' from such disk. One has to rebuild mkinitrd as well before that disk becomes accesible. Does some piece of documentation even mentions such things? I am not aware so far. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list