On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 17:06:17 +1000, Ekrem wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 04:36, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 7 September 2003 at 0:39:57 -0600, Samuel Chow wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I have the following vinum volume that I want to remove. >>> The disks will be reassigned to other machines. >>> >>> After reading the man page, I am under the impression that >>> I am supposed to first use the stop command. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> Umm... The stop command doesn't seem to work recursively, even >>> when the -r flag is specified. >>> >>> vinum -> rm -r dataVol >>> Can't remove dataVol: Device busy (16) >> >> The way to do it is with rm -rf. Arguably this is a bug. > > I've never used vinum, but I remember seeing similar 'device busy' > error messages when I tried to umount a partition while the current > directory (cd) was still within that partition. > > Just a thought that maybe you're still cd'ed in your vinum partition > while trying to remove it and it's causing the error.
It has nothing to do with the problem you describe. It's because he's not using the -f flag. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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