Am 22.02.2015 um 15:51 schrieb J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com>: >> on an EL5 XEN DOM0 system I have following volume >> >> $ df -h /srv Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted >> on /dev/sdc1 917G 858G 60G 94% /srv >> >> that partition was used by virtual machines but they were all >> halted. >> >> service xendomains stop >> >> $ xm list Name ID Mem(MiB) >> VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 >> 3000 2 r----- 695.1 >> >> $ service xend stop >> >> >> nothing is using the partition $ lsof |grep srv <empty> > > Run as root: > # lsof +D /srv okay - i will try this scan before booting next time. >> $ fuser -m /srv <empty> >> > > Again, run this as root. Compare (test example from my system): > $ fuser -m /boot 2>/dev/null | wc > 0 44 264 > # fuser -m /boot 2>/dev/null | wc > 0 223 1338 > > That's 180 processes I'd miss as an ordinary user. yep - all my commands were executed as root user (sorry for the $ vs. # confusion) >> $ fuser -km /srv <empty> >> >> >> but i can not umount /srv >> >> $ umount /srv umount: /srv: device is busy umount: /srv: device is >> busy >> > > I'm sure you've checked, but where is your PWD? I am also not sitting on the device :-) -- Thanks LF