Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:06:17 +1000 From: Ekrem <ekrem@ozemail.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remove a vinum volume? Message-ID: <1063695976.597.47.camel@beynam.ecko.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20030915183629.GE739@adelaide.lemis.com> References: <00a801c3750a$db00eea0$0601a8c0@celeron> <20030915183629.GE739@adelaide.lemis.com>
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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. > > Greg > -- 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. Ekremhelp
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