From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with SMTP id p2LAoGIZ198164 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:50:21 -0500 Received: from sam.nabble.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 0274136498A for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.nabble.com (sam.nabble.com [216.139.236.26]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id TwMd0wuWtpCANy2B for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1cjQ-0004v5-3B for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:53:04 -0700 Message-ID: <31199414.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:53:04 -0700 (PDT) From: stress_buster Subject: umount fails with device is busy MIME-Version: 1.0 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: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 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 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/umount-fails-with-device-is-busy-tp31199414p31199414.html Sent from the linux-xfs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs