loopback won't unmount?!

[Net Llama!]

On 05/22/03 14:06, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
>> I mounted a ext3 filesystem image on loopback today, and then
>> chroot'ed into it to make some changes.  when i tried to unmount it,
>> it refuses with the error:
>> Device or resource busy
>> 
>> If i grep the output from lsof for the file that i had mounted, i get
>> no results.  What can i do to unmount this besides rebooting the box?
> 
> I found you have to cd *out* of the mounted disk in the chroot environment
> before you can exit and unmount it in the master environment.  If you didn't
> do that, chroot back in and "cd /".  Then you should be able to unmount it
> when you exit.  Strange, but it keeps track of *anyone* in that directory
> structure.

nope, i did that too.  thanks though.

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