Command 'lvremove' fails with error: "Can Not Remove Open Logical Volume"
Issue
- When attempting to remove a logical volume the removal fails with message: "Can Not Remove Open Logical Volume"
- While removing one of the mount point , we got the below error:
[root@localhost ~]# lvremove /dev/mapper/rootvg-test
Can't remove open logical volume "test"
[root@localhost ~]# rmdir /test
rmdir: /test: Device or resource busy
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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