Re: unable to activate evms volume

Jürgen E. Fischer <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:55:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.evms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Bhanu,

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 20:50:24 +0530, Bhanu prakash wrote:
> Apr 20 22:55:49 bt _6_ Engine: is_kernel_volume_mounted: Kernel volume /dev/sda5 is mounted on swap.  Operations on volume /dev/evms/sda5 are not allowed.
> Apr 20 22:55:49 bt _6_ Engine: is_kernel_volume_mounted: Kernel volume /dev/sda6 is mounted on /.  Operations on volume /dev/evms/sda6 are not allowed.
[...]
> Apr 20 22:55:57 bt _2_ Engine: run_command_v4: Error returned from ioctl call: 22: Invalid argument.

The disk you're trying to use with EVMS is already mounted.  Therefore
the device mapper doesn't allow EVMS to "takeover" the disk.

To resolve the problem you can either apply the bd-claim patch or turn
your root filesystem and swap space to EVMS or compatibility volumes and
mount those instead.

See the passage about "Volume Activation" in the EVMS FAQ at
http://evms.sourceforge.net/faq.html for details.


Jürgen

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