On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:49:35PM -0500, Jonathan E Brassow wrote: > Hmmm, I can see where it might be 'active', but if it's not in use, it > shouldn't be open. It is open. lvchange -an says LV in use: not removing but I'm drawing a blank on finding anything that is actually using it. I'm kinda hoping someone can throw some light on what 'open' is here. > Some sub-lvs are marked as 'open', because they are used by the main LV > (such is the case with mirroring and snapshots). no mirrors, no snapshots :-( I have looked through /etc/lvm/backups and can't see anything odd. > Have you tried 'lsof <path to LV>' ? yup, tried lsof, tried fuser, there is no nfs, got nowhere. It's one of those things where I fully expect to have to say "d'oh sorry!", but until I can get deeper into it I am really stumped. > On Oct 9, 2006, at 1:58 PM, paddy wrote: > > > > >I just noticed that I have a system where an LV appears to be open > >(as given by lvs), but I can't see it mounted anywhere, or opened > >by any process. > > > >Any insights, suggestions, explanations, etc gratefully received :-) Regards, Paddy -- Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
