From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p2M5B8bN261076 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:11:13 -0500 Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8D33714A6BCE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.141]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id O5LENJN8b6cQfAoi for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:13:53 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: umount fails with device is busy Message-ID: <20110322051353.GA15270@dastard> References: <31199414.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31199414.post@talk.nabble.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: stress_buster Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs