Re: large file removal / ext2

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:41:02 PDT

> As it happens, I've just found the cause of the problem. I scanned the
> process list, completely unable to see any processes that could even
> conceivably be using the only file that was on the filesystem. Then
> I realised I still had a loopback device associated with that file,
> which was preventing the space being freed. Fixed it with:
>
> losetup -d /dev/loop0
>
> Maybe fuser needs updating to take account of this. It's very misleading
> when it tells you nothing's using a filesystem, and yet the kernel still
> tells you the filesystem's busy when you try to umount it.
>
> Tet
>
>

Do you have lsof there? What does it say?

-- 
marty
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