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From: Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>
To: rodrick.r.brown@bofasecurities.com, redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com
Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Cleaning up stale handles in /etc/mtab
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:18:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609011115380.32322@acis.rdu.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F08B160555AC946B5AB743B85FF406D05ABF277@ex2k.bankofamerica.com>

> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:13:41 -0400
> From: "Brown, Rodrick R" <rodrick.r.brown@bofasecurities.com>
> Reply-To: redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com
> To: redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com
> Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
> Subject: Cleaning up stale handles in /etc/mtab
>
> Not sure what exactly happened on this server but it looks like the LUNS
> were pulled w/o removing the volumes correctly or something of that
> sort.

If you've got processes in D waiting on those volumes I think you might
be hosed beyond recovery without reboot.

Having said that, you could try bumping up /proc/sys/fs/file-max to something
insanely high and then cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab

After that, I could only make wild guesses as to what needs to happen next.

-- 
Matthew Galgoci
IS Production Operations
Red Hat, Inc
919.754.3700 x44155

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-01 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5F08B160555AC946B5AB743B85FF406D05ABF277@ex2k.bankofamerica.com >
2006-09-01 15:13 ` [linux-lvm] Cleaning up stale handles in /etc/mtab Brown, Rodrick R
2006-09-01 15:18   ` Matthew Galgoci [this message]
2006-09-01 15:47   ` Michael Loftis

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