So, I have this: ├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 30G part bcache 8fd98dbd-4e87-4faa-8cec-d5f1e3910daa ae581b32-8c62-41a9-bfcf-ca8cec66e46a │ └─bcache0 252:0 0 1.1T disk crypto_LUKS d6c98ca4-23b4-4aa3-819b-b384d4ac1b6a │ └─pool2 251:3 0 1.1T crypt btrfs /mnt/btrfs_p 5ed9d54d-2f12-4735-85c2-e0445a316088 ├─sda7 8:7 0 1.1T part bcache 6d88cea7-6cfc-4d30-8cf5-8c8b216e019d 753dca8b-07 │ └─bcache0 252:0 0 1.1T disk crypto_LUKS d6c98ca4-23b4-4aa3-819b-b384d4ac1b6a │ └─pool2 251:3 0 1.1T crypt btrfs /mnt/btrfs_p 5ed9d54d-2f12-4735-85c2-e0445a316088 ├─sda6 8:6 0 65G part bcache 21c07a2c-6ed2-42c2-aafb-8e1bbfa471a5 753dca8b-06 └─sdb1 8:17 0 1.8T part bcache b324cfc4-a5ae-4888-ad6c-a5ba1002fdce 89ba6da8-01 └─bcache1 252:1 0 1.8T disk crypto_LUKS b519d6ce-291a-4500-937e-a5957e6ece6b └─pool3 251:4 0 1.8T crypt btrfs /mnt/btrfs_p 5874cad5-d6dd-4b3d-a455-4e0ae2611f09 bcache0 is fine bcache1 ended up in a bad state, I'm not sure how. No biggie, right, just delete/recreate/re-register sda6, except how? https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt SYSFS - CACHE DEVICE: says nothing about how I can free/release sda6 saruman:~# echo /dev/sda6 > /sys/fs/bcache/unregister -su: /sys/fs/bcache/unregister: Permission denied is not helpful, nothing in kern.log saruman:~# wipefs -a /dev/sda6 wipefs: error: /dev/sda6: probing initialization failed: Device or resource busy saruman:~# l /dev/bcache/by-uuid/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Feb 17 20:20 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Feb 17 20:20 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 17 20:20 6d88cea7-6cfc-4d30-8cf5-8c8b216e019d -> ../../bcache0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 17 20:20 b324cfc4-a5ae-4888-ad6c-a5ba1002fdce -> ../../bcache1 Those UUIDs don't show up in lsblk Oh my, what is this? saruman:~# l /sys/block/sda/sda6/bcache/set lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 18 22:28 /sys/block/sda/sda6/bcache/set -> ../../../../../../../../../../../fs/bcache/f419195d-184e-44b7-9f88-a834a5458f8c/ This other UUID still does not show up in lsblk, by now I've lost count of why I have 3 different kinds of UUIDs instead of 2. Mmmh, now I'm starting to get it, I have to look at caching devices by UUID, find the right one, and stop it: saruman:/sys/fs/bcache# l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Feb 18 22:32 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Feb 17 20:20 ../ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Feb 18 22:07 6698753e-78d0-4f6a-a8cb-fbb6a20ddae8/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Feb 18 22:07 b7ba27a1-2398-4649-8ae3-0959f57ba128/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Feb 18 22:32 f419195d-184e-44b7-9f88-a834a5458f8c/ Ok, let's try saruman:/sys/fs/bcache/f419195d-184e-44b7-9f88-a834a5458f8c# echo 1 > stop Ah, success: saruman:~# wipefs -a /dev/sda6 /dev/sda6: 16 bytes were erased at offset 0x00001018 (bcache): c6 85 73 f6 4e 1a 45 ca 82 65 f5 7f 48 ba 6d 81 This isn't super obvious :) Is there a howto document where those steps could be documented in a howto fashion? (removing a caching device and replacing it with another one, maybe you got a bigger/faster SSD) In https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt or otherwise? Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html