[CentOS] Can't delete or move /home on 7.3 install

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Thu Dec 15 16:42:19 UTC 2016


Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:10:07AM -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
>> On 12/15/2016 01:47 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Glenn E. Bailey III <
>> > replicant at dallaslamers.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Tried this in both AWS and GCE as I though it may be a specific cloud
>> >> vendor issue. SELinux is disabled, lsof | grep home shows nothing,
>> >> lsattr /home shows nothing. Simply get "Device or resource busy."
>> >>
>> >> Works just find on 7.2 so I'm kinda at a loss. Scanned over the RHEL
>> >> release notes and didn't see anything. Anyone else have this issue?
>> We
>> >> move our /home to another mount point and symlink /home to it ..
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Do you have access to the console, so that you can try to do the move
>> while
>> > in single user mode?
>> >
>> }}
>>
>> that is one possibility.
>>
>> even greater is op is a 'user', not 'root'.
<snip>

Here's a question to OP: how did you log into the system? If as *user*,
rather than as root, the filesystem is busy because you're logged on, and
in it.

Missed some of the posts overnight - has anyone asked for the o/p of df -h?

    mark




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