/mnt/gentoo: device is busy

dethstar · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

I've reached the end of my Gentoo installation and am trying to unmount my root directory (I've successfully umounted all other directories), but I'm getting the

umount: /mnt/gentoo: device is busy

error. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to unmount this directory, or does it not make a big deal if I just reboot into my new Gentoo enviroment without unmounting first.

#dethstar

zieloo · Veteran Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1337

Pithlit · l33t Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 887 Location: fuhen

You can't umount a folder you're in... maybe that's the case?

But since you reached the end of your install you could just go and reboot. IF you did everything right you have nothing to fear.

*edit* damn... came second again

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pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

You're sure you've cd'ed out of /mnt/gentoo? On all gettys? If you are, it shouldn't make much of a difference. Make sure it's not writing to the drive, and go ahead and restart.
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anaconda · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject:

The fresh memories picture me that I always used to forget umount /mnt/gentoo/proc

So I used the "-l" option for forced unmount of gentoo root directory. No data loss suffered.
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