Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2008-01-10 at 08:46 +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
Could be something as simple as the device-mapper having a file handle to the partition already. Don't know if you've fiddled in that area at all though. I haven't fiddled around with that, at least not intentionally. But
"Michael Kershaw" <> wrote: this was the missing hint. I found a /dev/mapper/1transtecT5016R_0-part1 that I was able to mount without a problem.
But why? Why was that dev mapper thing there? :-?
I heard of this problem another time, and we couldn't track it.
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