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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: stress_buster <leo1783@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: umount fails with device is busy
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:13:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322051353.GA15270@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31199414.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:53:04AM -0700, stress_buster wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to run xfs_repair on my filesystem:

Why do you need to do this?

> Firstly to unmount the fs
> 
> Quote:
> umount /myfs
> umount: /myfs: device is busy
> umount: /myfs: device is busy  
> 
> Quote:
> lsof /dev/sda  
> 
> -show none ie nothing seems to be 'touching' the disk.
> confused why its still showing device is busy

Did you have an oops or a filesystem shutdown? i.e. anything in
syslog of note?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-21 10:53 umount fails with device is busy stress_buster
2011-03-21 11:29 ` Roger Willcocks
2011-03-21 15:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-03-22  5:13 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-04-07 14:45   ` Leo Davis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-21 10:54 stress_buster

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