umount device is busy

[yaswanth4b7]

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hi every body when i am umount a /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LOgvol00
its showing umount: /: device is busy.
so what to do now

[NixSavy]

check what file system mounted and if any application running on it.
if something running then stop the service or application.

[nikhil_shinde1]

Hi

Check where the logical Volume /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LOgvol00 is mounted.

you can type

mount

to list all mounts.

once you list mount point location, Checked if app is running.
then umount /mount-point


Best Regards.

[yaswanth4b7]

thanx for reply
after typing mount command the output i get is
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-Logvol00 on / ext3 (rw). how to check whc app is running?

[mizzle]

/ is the root file system. You cannot unmount that directory while the system is running.

What are you trying to accomplish exactly, maybe we can be of more direct assistance?

[Rubberman]

You will get this error any time you try to umount a device that has any file/directory open when you do so, including just having a shell cd'd to a directory there. This is not uncommon. It happens to me all the time, and usually it is just that I have a shell somewhere that either has a file opened on that device, or I have a shell located there.

If you want (not safe for prime time), you can use the -f (force) option to force the unmounting of the file system - caveat user!

[alf55]

Since it is mounted on "/", it can not be unmounted while the OS is running as the process "init" has it busy (which is started by the kernel right after it is loaded and initialized) and it is the parent/ancestor of all jobs running on the system.

[Honeyman]

You can information about which processes are using a partition or device by typing

lsof '/dev/sdX'

or

fuser '/dev/sdX'

This should give the process and its user including its process ID, which you can then end/kill.

A radical way to kill all processes using a partition or a device would be:

fuser -k '/dev/sdX''

[yaswanth4b7]

hiiiiii
thanx for the reply when i enter the command: fuser -cu /dev/mapper//VolGroup00-LogVol00 the output i get is:

/dev/mapper//VolGroup00-LogVol00: 1rce(root) 2rc(root) 3rc(root) 4rc(root) 5rc(root) 6rc(root) 7rc(root) 9rc(root) 10rc(root) 12rc(root) 13rc(root) 177rc(root) 181rc(root) 183rc(root) 244rc(root) 245rc(root) 246rc(root) 247rc(root) 248rc(root) 455rc(root) 485rc(root) 486rc(root) 487rc(root) 490rc(root) 491rc(root) 496rc(root) 505rc(root) 516rc(root) 542rc(root) 1354rc(root) 2022rc(root) 2023rc(root) 2086rc(root) 2087rc(root) 2209rc(root) 2244rc(root) 2248rc(root) 2249rc(root) 2250rc(root) 2252rc(root) 2256rc(root) 2264rc(root) 2585rc(root) 2668rc(root) 4392rce(root) 4393rce(root) 4394rce(root) 4404rce(root) 4405rce(root) 4406rce(root) 4407rce(root) 4428rce(root) 4430rce(root) 4431rce(root) 4443rce(root) 4479rce(root) 4508rce(root) 4509rce(root) 4515rce(root) 4518rce(root) 4520rce(root) 4540rce(root) 4544rce(root) 4546rce(root) 4550rce(root) 4552rce(root) 4557rce(root) 4590rce(root) 4596rce(root) 4598rce(root) 4604rce(root) 4611rce(root) 4623rce(root) 4624rce(root) 4632rce(root) 4637rce(root) 4641rce(root) 4659rce(root) 4660rce(root) 4662rce(root) 4674rce(root) 4723rce(root) 4771rce(root) 4773rce(apache) 4774rce(apache) 4775rce(apache) 4776rce(apache) 4777rce(apache) 4778rce(apache) 4779rce(apache) 4780rce(apache) 4829rce(rpc) 4872rce(root) 5076rce(root) 5164rce(mysql) 5288rce(root) 5515rce(root) 5518rc(root) 5519rc(root) 5520rc(root) 5521rc(root) 5522rc(root) 5523rc(root) 5524rc(root) 5525rc(root) 5526rc(root) 5527rc(root) 5530rce(root) 5642rce(root) 5646rce(root) 5650rce(root)

[Sreenadha]

hi every body when i am umount a /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LOgvol00
its showing umount: /: device is busy.
so what to do now

You can unmount...by using this command..


fuser -m /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LOgvol00