On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:17:56AM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Maximilian Gass wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: >> >>> I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this >>> (hopefully) non-destructive problem: >>> >> This problem is non-destructive and normal. >> >> >>> Now, this 'Can't deactivate volume group', always happened, and I >>> guess it is because the root filesystem is still used after LVM shuts >>> down. If someone knows why this happens, plz tell me! >>> >> Yes, the LV with / on it can't be disabled, so it fails. >> > > And why doesn't it first unmount root fs and then disable the LV? I > guess the answer to this is that root fs is not unmounted but rather > remounted read-only, so it would fail again... Is that it? (I am > relatively new to linux and I want to make sure I understand this > correctly...)
maybe because you need to call a program on / in order to deactivate the LVM, but without / you can't call that program... A
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