loopback won't unmount?!

Andrew Mathews andrew_mathews
Mon May 17 11:47:41 PDT 2004


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Net Llama! wrote:
| On 05/22/03 13:58, Andrew Mathews 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?
|> |
|>
|> You did a Ctrl-D to exit from the chroot environment first?
|
|
| exit
|
| which should be the same, right?
|

Yes. Did you start a process that didn't terminate properly while
chrooted per chance?

- --
Andrew Mathews
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
~  3:16pm  up 10 days, 20:49, 13 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Everything that you know is wrong, but you can be straightened out.
- --
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQE+zT6TidHQ0m/kEssRAnDuAJ92QFXfcZVvO5tnBYNmmbhrXu9BIACfcv25
LLRQJ/l1Z4CfdqT3J2ws5qo=
=54ud
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



More information about the Linux-users mailing list