good day sirs, i am using SLES sp1 on an IBM system z mainframe (s390 arch with DASD disks) and i am facing the following problem... i have one VG with 2 LVs ,the data from second lv was moved elsewere and i want to remove the lv and free up the DASD disks BUT i have a problem... when the data was moved ALL related daemons/programs writing/reading files on this lv should be closed...but they werent.. :( using lsof i found some apps accessing the old lv and they were killed, also checking /proc/locks revealed programs that were closed... tried to remove the lv by using lvremove but failed ,dmsetup -c info shows: Name Maj Min Stat Open Targ Event UUID system-home 253 0 L--w 1 1 0 LVM-QNFhmaviXPV05YkWno62o7zaEqaM3OMgcp1bhHr4HNLEaMskAgBUGkGAqeHwnXMV open count is 1 and i cant find who/which keeps it open... lsof shows nothing.... cat /proc/locks | grep fd:00 shows nothing... tried to remove it by using lvremove system-home dmsetup remove system-home dmsetup --force remove system-home nothing.... any ideas (i am trying to avoid reboot) on how can i find what is keeping my lv open...? regards Michael Cossenas. _______________________________________________ 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/
