On 02/10/2011 09:14 PM, Peter Flass wrote: > I'm truly sorry to bother the developers' list with this question, but > I've searched and can't find an ansewr that works. A system crash seems > to have corrupted something in my fedora system. I boot to a rescue CD > and look thru LVM. The disk (sdb) has one vg and three lv's on it. > Call the vg vg_xxx, the lv's are lv_boot (ext3, I believe), lv_swap (no > fs) and lv_home (ext4). I can't fsck (e2fsck) lv_home or do anything > else with it, LVM says it's open count=1 where the open count of the > other two lv's is zero. > > I can't find who has it open. /proc/mounts shows /dev/sdb1 mounted on > /media/usb0, when I umount it (either by mount point or device) it > disappears, but the lv still shows open, and as a result I am unable to > do anything with it. lsof also shows nothing open that resembles this > lv. I can inactivate the other two lvs in this vg, but not lv_home. > > What can I do to fix this problem? What does "dmsetup ls --tree" look like? E.g.: $ sudo dmsetup ls --tree tvg0-l0 (253:7) ââ (7:1) bmr_vg1-swap (253:4) ââ (9:1) luks-ca3de7ff-5487-4e9b-ac2b-846efc71b2e2 (253:5) ââbmr_vg0-data (253:2) ââ (9:2) bmr_vg0-var (253:1) ââ (9:2) luks-a48853af-19d8-4965-a346-d82ae4672b66 (253:6) ââbmr_vg0-home (253:3) ââ (9:2) bmr_vg0-root (253:0) ââ (9:2) Regards, Bryn. _______________________________________________ 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/