topic Re: disk is busy in Operating System - Linux

disk is busy

cbozlagan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:17:35 GMT

We are using EVA SAN. We attached 250GB disk (c8t1d6) to a HP-UX system (11.31).When we use pvcreate command, "disk is busy" message comes. We study this problem, we realized 250GB disk (c8t1d6) already attached to another HP-UX sytem (Not used).

What must we do to use c8t1d6 disk with aimed HP-UX system?

Thanks.

Re: disk is busy

Steven Schweda — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:09:20 GMT

> [...] HP-UX system [...] another HP-UX
> sytem [...]

You might do better in an HP-UX forum than
you will in this Linux forum.

Re: disk is busy

J Peak — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:41:52 GMT

I believe that "pvcreate -f" will force the creation of the device. But make VERY certain that block device is NOT being used somewhere else, or your data will be gone.