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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Pvcreate can't open /dev/xvda2 exclusively mounted filesystem Post 302973059 by Aia on Friday 13th of May 2016 09:59:49 AM
Old 05-13-2016
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Originally Posted by alnhk
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[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2 16G 5.3G 9.8G 36% /
tmpfs 1.4G 0 1.4G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/xvda1 99M 72M 23M 77% /boot
[root@localhost ~]#



[root@localhost ~]# mount
/dev/xvda2 on / type ext4 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/xvda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
Hi, alnhk
Thank you for posting the information. In deed it shows the cause of the problem.
In your first post you mentioned you have deleted /dev/xvda2 using fdisk. However, the parts I have highlighted in red, show that /dev/xvda2 is not deleted; it has a filesystem and it is mounted. In fact, it can not be deleted unless it is offline, because it is the root (/) of the OS filesystem and the operating system will not let you. If you delete that partition booting from another filesystem (like a live CD) you will be erasing the whole OS. I do not think that's what you want.

Last edited by Aia; 05-13-2016 at 11:07 AM..
 

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Sys::Filesystem::Aix(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Sys::Filesystem::Aix(3pm)

NAME
Sys::Filesystem::Aix - Return AIX filesystem information to Sys::Filesystem SYNOPSIS
See Sys::Filesystem. INHERITANCE
Sys::Filesystem::Aix ISA UNIVERSAL METHODS
version () Return the version of the (sub)module. ATTRIBUTES
The following is a list of filesystem properties which may be queried as methods through the parent Sys::Filesystem object. account Used by the dodisk command to determine the filesystems to be processed by the accounting system. boot Used by the mkfs command to initialize the boot block of a new filesystem. check Used by the fsck command to determine the default filesystems to be checked. dev Identifies, for local mounts, either the block special file where the filesystem resides or the file or directory to be mounted. free This value can be either true or false. (Obsolete and ignored). mount Used by the mount command to determine whether this file system should be mounted by default. nodename Used by the mount command to determine which node contains the remote filesystem. size Used by the mkfs command for reference and to build the file system. type Used to group related mounts. vfs Specifies the type of mount. For example, vfs=nfs specifies the virtual filesystem being mounted is an NFS filesystem. vol Used by the mkfs command when initializing the label on a new filesystem. The value is a volume or pack label using a maximum of 6 characters. log The LVName must be the full path name of the filesystem logging logical volume name to which log data is written as this file system is modified. This is only valid for journaled filesystems. SEE ALSO
Sys::Filesystem Example /etc/filesystems * @(#)filesystems @(#)29 1.22 src/bos/etc/filesystems/filesystems, cmdfs, bos530 9/8/00 13:57:45 * IBM_PROLOG_BEGIN_TAG * This is an automatically generated prolog. * * <snip> * * This version of /etc/filesystems assumes that only the root file system * is created and ready. As new file systems are added, change the check, * mount, free, log, vol and vfs entries for the appropriate stanza. /: dev = /dev/hd4 vol = "root" mount = automatic check = false free = true vfs = jfs2 log = /dev/hd8 type = bootfs /proc: dev = /proc vol = "/proc" mount = true check = false free = false vfs = procfs /scratch: dev = /dev/fslv02 vfs = jfs2 log = INLINE mount = true account = false Example /usr/sbin/mount output node mounted mounted over vfs date options -------- --------------- --------------- ------ ------------ --------------- /dev/hd4 / jfs2 Mar 24 12:14 rw,log=/dev/hd8 /proc /proc procfs Mar 24 12:15 rw /dev/fslv02 /scratch jfs2 Mar 24 12:15 rw,log=INLINE filesystems(4) Manpage includes all known options, describes the format and comment char's. VERSION
$Id: Aix.pm 128 2010-05-12 13:16:44Z trevor $ AUTHOR
Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org> - <http://perlgirl.org.uk> Jens Rehsack <rehsack@cpan.org> - <http://www.rehsack.de/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004,2005,2006 Nicola Worthington. Copyright 2008-2010 Jens Rehsack. This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0. <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> perl v5.10.1 2010-05-18 Sys::Filesystem::Aix(3pm)
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