On Saturday January 5, jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > root@chinaberry:~# mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/hdb5 > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdb5: Device or resource busy > > All the solutions I've been able to google fail with the busy. There is > nothing that I can find that might be using /dev/hdb5 except the raid > device and it appears it's not either. Very odd. But something must be using it. What does ls -l /sys/block/hdb/hdb5/holders show? What about cat /proc/mounts cat /proc/swaps lsof /dev/hdb5 ?? NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
