From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Clements Subject: Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes! Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:36:15 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4045FB6F.7D934181@SteelEye.com> References: message from Chris Evans on Wednesday March 3 <4045A154.12266.4B21C5B@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Chris Evans Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Chris Evans wrote: > a) confirm or deny my hunch that the ext2/ext3 issue is normal? A reasonable hunch, but no, it is not normal for an ext3 root fs to show up as ext2 in /proc/mounts: # cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 [snip] Perhaps you don't have ext3 support built in to the kernel? If not, you'll need an initrd to boot your root fs as ext3. As far as the active inodes on /dev/hdb1, one thing you might try is: fuser -vm /dev/hdb1 If there's a process accessing /dev/hdb1, it will be listed. -- Paul