From: cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>
To: Jochen <jochen3941@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs-convert complains that fs is mounted even if it isn't
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:57:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE5mzviKfn7VGfKHgtGojuuWnC89Hv0mE-Uk77Wx1vFxVL8T2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <juhp57$5aq$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Jochen <jochen3941@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run btrfs-convert on a system that has three raid partitions
> (boot/md1, swap/md2 and root/md3). When I boot a rescue system from md1, and
> try to run "btrfs-convert /dev/md3", it complains that /dev/md3 is already
> mounted, although it definitely is not. The only partition mounted is
> /dev/md1 because of the rescue system. When I replicate the setup in a local
> VM, booting the rescue system from another disk (no /dev/md1 mounted) helps,
> btrfs-convert runs. However, I cannot do this on the server.
>
> Is there anything I can do about this?
Can you mount and cleanly umount /dev/md3 and try the convert again?
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2012-07-22 20:51 btrfs-convert complains that fs is mounted even if it isn't Jochen
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