Re: cannot rename with mv - SOLVED
On Tue, January 17, 2017 12:39 am, Reco wrote:
> EBUSY The rename fails because oldpath or newpath is a directory
> that is in use by some process (perhaps as current working directory, or as
> root directory, or because it was open for reading) or is in use by the
> system (for example as mount point), while the system considers this an
> error.
/backup is a directory in / and "lsof | grep /backup" returns nothing.
> So, since nothing is using the directory in your case, this means
> either that /backup is a mounted filesystem, or your root filesystem
> suffers severe damage.
I do not suspect damage of the root filesystem, because the machine was
booted only a few hours ago.
But "cat /etc/mtab" prints the line:
/dev/sdb3 /backup ext4 rw,relativetime,data=ordered 0 0
so you have diagnosed the problem, and I thank you!
RH
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