cant umount

binary_0011 · 04-23-2006, 11:18 PM

[root@rhe11 /]# umount -f /home/download
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /home/download: device is busy
umount2: Device or resource busy
umount: /home/download: device is busy

-f is a force option, why it still wont work?

Thanks.

Amuro-Ray2020 · 04-23-2006, 11:21 PM

My guess is that something is being written within the directory, or you have something running within the directory. Out of curiosity, is this directory on a seperate drive?

IBall · 04-23-2006, 11:28 PM

If /home/download is on a separate drive or partition, then you can umount. If it is just a subdirectory of /home, then you can't. You can umount /home if it is on a separate drive though.

When you umount, your Present Working Directory can not on the device you are umounting. To find out, use the command "pwd". Eg: if pwd is /home/download/ then you can not umount /home/download

I hope this helps
--Ian

binary_0011 · 04-23-2006, 11:35 PM

it is not a sub-directory. it is on a vol group and was mounted manually :

/dev/mapper/mystore-download on /home/download type ext3 (rw)

no, i am not on my present working directory.

zulfilee · 04-24-2006, 12:23 AM

Try

lsof | grep download

This will tell you if any proces is still using some files inside this directory.

A
ps -auxww
Should also show you if any process is using the directory and not allowing it to unmount

Cheers
Z

binary_0011 · 04-24-2006, 03:11 AM

lsof | grep download

showed me the user accessing the file/directory.

How do I kick him?

Thanks.

zulfilee · 04-24-2006, 03:20 AM

See if its a process accessing the directory.
If its a process kill that process with a
kill -9 pid

[The process id can be obtained from lsof output ]

Or try a
w
and see if any user is connected through network and accessing your download directory.

Also see if ps -auxwww is of any help.

Cheers
Zulfi