[solved]mount error on lvm volume

mntester · 2012-06-02 22:18:28

I have a LVM partition with several volumes formatted as ext4 filesystems. When I try to mount 2 of these volumes that used to work fine before I get the following error:

mount: /mnt/temp is not a block device

The other volumes mount without any error and the two that error have worked successfully before. I just haven't used them for a while and today while trying to mount, I got this error. I ran fsck on those and that ran ok without errors.

If anyone can suggest how to get around this or fix it, greatly appreciate.

Thanks.

Last edited by mntester (2012-06-03 00:20:46)

firecat53 · 2012-06-02 23:03:38

Silly question, but have you fully updated and rebooted recently? There have been recent updates to kernel, udev, lvm2, mkinitcpio, et. al. that might affect your logical volumes. Do 'pvdisplay', 'lvdisplay' and 'vgdisplay' correctly display all your volumes?

Scott

mntester · 2012-06-03 00:16:22

I haven't run an update for a long time, been planning to. All the lvm commands work fine and display correct information for those two volumes. Not sure why the updates would impact only two of the volumes. Thanks for the reply, Scott.

mntester · 2012-06-03 00:23:21

Never mind. I am ashamed to admit I was giving the command wrong - mixed up source and destination. After all these years of using *nix, you would think I could never make mistakes like this

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#1 2012-06-02 22:18:28

[solved]mount error on lvm volume

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