Re: unable to activate evms volume

Thanks Jürgen,

But the problem is not about activating non-EVMS volumes. I have created an
EVMS volume. It is /dev/evms/myvol1. I am not able to activate this. The log
file attached in my previous mail has the details.

Regards
Bhanu

On 4/20/07, Jürgen E. Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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