Re: partition busy during shutdown
tomk@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
>
> I recently moved my Debian to a larger hard drive. I reorganized the partition
> allocation from a splintered arrangement to a 2 partition arrangement:
> /dev/hda4 - /var
> /dev/hda3 - / (and all other stuff)
>
> Up until this change, 'shutdown' worked ok. Recently, I've been getting a
> message:
>
> ...... mount: /dev/hda4 is busy
>
> when partitions are being dis-mounted. Any clues as to how to determine what
> process is keeping the partition busy?
>
yup.
try fuser -m /var
the output will be process ids of processes using the file
system.
it sounds like processes are not being killed appropriately.
good luck,
m*
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