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Re: trying to umount a chroot /dev



On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 08:40 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 06:46:35PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > I setup a chroot on a snapshot.  Part of the setup was
> > mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev
> > 
> > I have exited the chroot and, I believe, ended the processes I started.
> > umount /mnt/chrtest/dev
> > gives umount: /mnt/chrtest/dev: device is busy
> > 
> > How can I get this to work?
> 
> All the answers have been good ones.
> 
> I just wanted to mention that if you want to do this regularly,
> the schroot program can automatically snapshot your chroot with
> LVM and mount the /dev (and other) filesystems.  It then
> subsequently umounts the filesystems and deletes the snapshot.
> 
That sounds a lot like what I'm trying to do, including the snapshot.
Does schroot do any special tricks to umount dev?

Ross



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