umount Block device required

[Matthias Oswald]

Hi there,

I'm having a problem with a file system to unmount.
There is a inconsistency, bdf sees it different than what is in the mnttab.

Is there a save way to clean this up ?


root@luxtc1:/> bdf /huu10
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 1048576 106496 934920 10% /
root@luxtc1:/> grep huu10 /etc/mnttab
/dev/vg52/lvol2 /huu10 vxfs log,nodatainlog 0 0 1088174817
root@luxtc1:/> mount |grep huu10
/huu10 on /dev/vg52/lvol2 log,nodatainlog on Fri Jun 25 16:46:57 2004
root@luxtc1:/> bdf |grep huu10
/dev/vg52/lvol2 1048576 106496 934920 10% /huu10
root@luxtc1:/> umount /huu10
umount: cannot unmount /huu10 : Block device required
root@luxtc1:/>


Thanks
Matthias

[Naveej.K.A]

hi,

check to see whether any file(s) in the filesystem is open??? use lsof utility.

if not installed get it from

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.71/

regds
Naveej

[Dietmar Konermann · Accepted solution]

What happens if you try "umount /dev/vg52/lvol2"?

[Simon Hargrave]

If the filesystem isn't actually mounted and just mnttab is out if sync, then you can rm /etc/mnttab, then run mount to regenerate it.

[Matthias Oswald]

Thanks for the quick response.

Looking through the output of lsof, there a lot of processes, shell and system processes pointing to the mount point in question /huu10.

What can I do ?
Do I need to reboot the machine ?

[Matthias Oswald]

The mnttab seems out of sync.
Can I remove just the entry for /huu10 in it, or is it saver to remove the complete mnttab and regenerate it with mount ?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

No you can not remove the mountpoint from the mnttab.

# mv /etc/mnttab /etc/mnttab.old
# mount

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Matthias Oswald]

moving the mnttab and re-generating it with mount cleared the problem

Thanks

[Simon Hargrave]

not trying to be funny but you gave Robert 10pts for the same answer I gave, and I got no assignment.

Please make sure you assign points to your answers.

I'm after me first hat ;)