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Alex
Asked: 2018-09-25 04:23:59 +0800 CST

rm -rf does not work: 'Device or resource busy'

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I'm using OpenVZ to create containers and it creates a folder for each container to store its files. I stopped the creation of a container before it gets completed, so it created a folder for that container, but when I try to remove that folder using rm -rf, I get the 'Device or resource busy' error, but when I do 'lsof <container folder>' or 'fuser <container folder>', it returns nothing, even when I do umount <container folder> nothing happens. So I'm not sure which process or device is using it. How can I remove this folder?

rm container openvz

2 Answers

  1. I did several umount commands and it worked well for me. For some reason, the folder has been mounted several times by openvz, so I had to umount it several times to be able to remove it.

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  2. $ umount /directory/

=> umount(/directory/): Resource busy -- try 'diskutil unmount'

    So I tried with 

    diskutil unmount /directory/

    and it works for me.

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