From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: stress_buster <leo1783@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: umount fails with device is busy
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:45:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8772A8.9050201@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31199414.post@talk.nabble.com>
On 3/21/11 5:53 AM, stress_buster wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run xfs_repair on my filesystem:
> 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
>
> i did a force unmount then
>
> Quote:
> #umount -l /dev/sda
that's not really enough.
Checking swap is a good idea, as is looking for loopback mounted
files on the fs...
-Eric
> but then when I try to run xfs_repair
>
> Quote:
> xfs_repair -n /dev/sda, it
> xfs_repair: /dev/sda contains a mounted and writable filesystem
>
> fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library
>
> lsof /dev/sda
> shows nothing ie nothing seems to be 'touching' the disk.
> makes me wonder whether this is a xfs issue now??
>
>
> Any thoughts???
>
> Thanks
> David
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-21 15:42 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 [this message]
2011-03-22 5:13 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 14:45 ` Leo Davis
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2011-03-21 10:54 stress_buster
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