[linux-lvm] Cannot unmount my /usr partition.....

A James Lewis james at fsck.co.uk
Thu Apr 26 08:49:02 UTC 2001


Yup....

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Glenn Shannon wrote:

> Actually ALL of my tools for LVM, Reiser and DevFS are in the /sbin dir.
>
> Thanks for the try tho!
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Glenn
> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>
> > Glenn Shannon wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > Great job on LVM...loving it so far..just have a quick question if I
> > > may..
> > >
> > > Boots fine (better than fine!) and devfs reiser and lvm seem to play
> > > well together while they are running...... but upon shutdown I cannot
> > > unmount my /usr partition for some reason it is busy.
> > >
> > > I have hacked the init scripts to let me reboot successfully (as it IS a
> > > production machine with automatic reboot times entered in the cron) but
> > > it cannot deactivate my LVM due to the /usr partition being busy.
> > Hmm, I had this problem sometimes with RH6.x, but w/o LVM. So it may not
> > be related to LVM. On the other hand, where did you put the LVM
> > userspace tools? If they reside in /usr, this may cause your problem.
> > IMHO they belong into /, because they are needed at boot/shutdown time.
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> >
> >         Dirk
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A. James Lewis (james at fsck.co.uk)
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