On Saturday 01 September 2007 18:30, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Hi,
On a 10.3beta2 couple days ago my /dev/sdb1 was perfectly mountable. It was not in in fstab on purpose, mind you. Then something got updated by opensuse updater and sdb1 was not mountable anymore.
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt said "already mounted or /mnt busy" which was so not true. Errk.
Googling I found people almost back in the last century debating this. The good advice pointed towards device-mapper.
Turned out that device-mapper had grabbed sdb. So can _I_ do something with it too? Like use my hard disk? Not that I ever configured, invoked, worshipped device-mapper at all.
dmsetup ls gave me 2 strings garbled together from device-mapper lingo and the name and serial number of my disk. Like linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number (253, 0) and linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number_part1 (253, 1)
dmsetup remove linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number_part1 and dmsetup remove linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number and mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt and things are back the way they were.
Am I missing something deep? Plus: Apart from police people who in this whole wide world thinks having serial numbers of your disks all over the system was cool? Could that be, like, an _option_ please? My face turns all yellow when I look at /etc/fstab these days. Can someone tell me the advantages of this?
Thanks, and thank you for a pretty amazing beta2. Wolfgang
It seems to be the same as this: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=307044 but looking another similar bug, leads to: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=302422 origin. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org