03-26-2009
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etcpasswd
Hi, please help!!!
I'm installing an openSUSE 10.3 into a computer, after creating the following partitions:
Primay Partition
swap
/
LVM(volume manager) - /dev/sda3
/opt, /var, /tmp, /usr, /local
when i tried to continue installing, after creating the partitions
i am prompted with the following failure:
You may have to refer to it by the /dev/mapper entry. Are you doing this on the CL or in Yast?
Also, just an aside, but why are you not putting / in the LVM? You can carve out a 90MB /boot and keep the rest maintained by LVM, including swap, or, with recent improvements in speed, put swap on a mounted filesystem as a file, as it will continue to do block I/O to the file.
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blkdeactivate
BLKDEACTIVATE(8) BLKDEACTIVATE(8)
NAME
blkdeactivate - utility to deactivate block devices
SYNOPSIS
blkdeactivate [options] [device...]
DESCRIPTION
blkdeactivate utility deactivates block devices. If a device is mounted, the utility can unmount it automatically before trying to deacti-
vate. The utility currently supports device-mapper devices, including LVM volumes. LVM volumes are handled directly using the lvm command.
Other device-mapper based devices are handled using the dmsetup command.
OPTIONS
-e, --errors
Show errors reported from tools called by blkdeactivate. Without this option, any error messages from these external tools are sup-
pressed and the blkdeactivate itself provides only a summary message about device being skipped or not.
-h, --help
Display the help text.
-u, --umount
Unmount a mounted device before trying to deactivate it. Without this option used, a device that is mounted is not deactivated.
-v, --verbose
Run in verbose mode.
-d, --dmoption dm_options
Comma separated list of device-mapper specific options.
-l, --lvmoption lvm_options
Comma separated list of LVM specific options.
DM_OPTIONS
retry Retry removal several times in case of failure.
force Force device removal. See dmsetup(8) for more information.
LVM_OPTIONS
retry Retry removal several times in case of failure.
wholevg
Deactivate the whole LVM Volume Group when processing a Logical Volume. Deactivating Volume Group as a whole takes less time than
deactivating each Logical Volume separately.
EXAMPLES
Deactivate all supported block devices found in the system. If a device is mounted, skip its deactivation.
blkdeactivate
Deactivate all supported block devices found in the system. If a device is mounted, unmount it first if possible.
blkdeactivate -u
Deactivate supplied device together with all its holders. If any of the devices processed is mounted, unmount it first if possible.
blkdeactivate -u /dev/vg/lvol0
Deactivate all supported block devices found in the system. Retry deactivation of device-mapper devices in case the deactivation fails.
Deactivate the whole Volume Group at once when processing an LVM Logical Volume.
blkdeactivate -u -d retry -l wholevg
Deactivate all supported block devices found in the system. Retry deactivation of device-mapper devices in case the deactivation fails and
force removal.
blkdeactivate -d force,retry
SEE ALSO
lsblk(8) umount(8) dmsetup(8) lvm(8)
Red Hat, Inc LVM TOOLS 2.02.105(2)-RHEL7 (2014-03-26) BLKDEACTIVATE(8)