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From: Ramon Fischer <Ramon_Fischer@hotmail.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 20:40:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM6PR10MB24406ED1F1B405DFD39C0AD1EF1B9@AM6PR10MB2440.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f48bc72e-dfea-fb10-28a9-89fee3195d29@gmail.com>


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This is just a guess. Maybe you have two devices with the same UUID?

If so, you can change it with:

    $ cryptsetup --uuid="<some_uuid>" luksUUID "/dev/sdx1"

-Ramon

On 05/07/2021 05:19, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
>>> After staring at it a while, it hit me that lsblk is showing it as still
>>> mounted, even tho I umounted already without error.  So, I just ran the
>>> umount command again.  After that, it closed just fine.  So, it seems to
>>> be mounted twice, not once.  I mount using this command 'mount /mnt/8tb'
>>> which uses fstab to mount the correct UUID device to that mount point.
>>> Surely it only mounts once.  Always has in the past.  So why is it being
>>> mounted twice now?  None of my scripts used for backups includes any
>>> mounting commands.  There's also only one entry in fstab as well.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any idea while it gets mounted twice?  Does the cryptsetup
>>> open command mount it in some way and then I mount it manually as well??
>>> When I opened it just now, it didn't show anything as mounted.  So it
>>> doesn't appear to be the open command.  What else could it be??
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>> The same drive just did it again.  I had to reboot to get it to reset.
>> This is Linux not windoze.  Rebooting to reset something like that is
>> plain ridiculous.  I also checked, this time it was mounted only once.
>> When I tried to umount it again, it said it wasn't mounted.  The thing
>> that really gets me, nothing can tell me what it is that is using the
>> device.  It says it is in use but no clue what it is using it.
>>
>> To test a theory, I changed fstab to mount by label instead of UUID.
>> Maybe that will change something.  I dunno.  I do know, if this doesn't
>> improve soon, I'm going to erase the drive and either find another
>> encryption tool or just not encrypt it at all.  I'm not rebooting every
>> time this thing wants to act ugly.  I'm used to rebooting like every 6
>> months or so.  Usually when the power fails.
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas, please post.  In the meantime, I'm going to try
>> this mounting by label idea.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>
> Here's a update.  I'm doing my weekly updates which means I close web
> browsers, to conserve memory mostly.  While I'm doing updates, I update
> my backups.  As usual, the 6TB drive did fine.  I ran the usual
> commands, got the proper response and everything worked fine.  The 8TB
> drive did the same.  It ran every command from decrypting it to
> unmounting and closing without a single problem.  I even opened it,
> mounted it, unmounted it and closed it again.  Still, no problems at all.
>
> The only thing I changed, I mounted by label instead of UUID.  Can
> someone explain to me why that should matter?  It's the same thing being
> mounted so one would think it wouldn't matter at all.  Heck, most even
> say mounting by UUID is the best way.  Dang near impossible to have two
> of anything with the same UUID.  So why does it work fine with labels
> but not UUID?
>
> I'm looking forward to someone having a clue on this.  I'm very
> confused, happy it works but confused for sure. This makes no sense.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-14  4:50 [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not Dale
2021-06-15 13:48 ` Ramon Fischer
2021-06-15 14:21   ` Dale
2021-06-15 14:52     ` Jack
2021-06-15 15:26       ` Dale
2021-06-15 19:04         ` Ramon Fischer
2021-06-21  4:18         ` Dale
2021-06-21  4:49           ` Dale
2021-06-21  5:41             ` Dale
2021-06-21  5:59               ` Dale
2021-06-28  3:35                 ` Dale
2021-07-05  3:19                   ` Dale
2021-07-06 18:40                     ` Ramon Fischer [this message]
2021-07-06 19:43                       ` Dale
2021-07-07 14:48                       ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-07-07 18:08                         ` Dale
2021-07-08  8:20                           ` Ramon Fischer
2021-07-12  8:31                             ` Dale
2021-07-12 13:14                               ` Ramon Fischer
2021-08-02 13:33                                 ` Dale
2021-08-09 13:38                                   ` Ramon Fischer
2021-09-19 11:55                                     ` Dale
2021-07-25 20:29                           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-25 23:10                             ` Dale
2021-07-26 21:00                               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-26 22:48                                 ` Dale
2021-07-29 16:46                                 ` Wols Lists
2021-07-29 20:55                                   ` [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not) Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-29 21:31                                     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-30 12:48                                       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-30  5:14                                     ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-30 14:29                                       ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-30 16:50                                         ` antlists
2021-07-30 18:38                                           ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31  3:14                                         ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-31  3:50                                           ` Wols Lists
2021-07-31  4:58                                             ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-31 12:12                                               ` Rich Freeman
2021-08-01  0:41                                                 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-01  0:56                                                   ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31 16:38                                               ` antlists
2021-08-01  0:50                                               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-01  3:36                                                 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01  3:46                                                   ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 21:38                                                     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02  5:38                                                       ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-02 21:52                                                         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02 23:10                                                           ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-03  8:18                                                             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-05 20:40                                                               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-06  7:22                                                                 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 21:55                                                   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02  6:12                                                     ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-02 22:03                                                       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-08-02 23:35                                                         ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01  3:41                                                 ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 21:41                                                   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-31 12:21                                             ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31 12:59                                               ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-31 13:30                                                 ` Rich Freeman
2021-08-01  3:05                                                   ` William Kenworthy
2021-08-01 11:37                                                     ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-31  5:23                                           ` William Kenworthy
2021-06-15 17:48     ` [gentoo-user] Re: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not Remy Blank

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