Bug 139581

Summary:	Yast2 doesn´t resize unmounted partition
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Michael Eickenboom <michael.eickenboom>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Michael Eickenboom 2005-12-16 12:37:52 UTC

I can´t resize my /home - partition (65 -> 60 GB) because Yast claims it was still mounted. Another 'umount /home' gives back a 'partition already unmounted'

Further infos:

HW: Acer Aspire 1652 wlmi notebook
Suse 10 OSS is the only OS on disk
hda1 = / (ext3)
hda5 = swap
hda6 = /home (ext3)

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-12-19 17:15:59 UTC

Please attach the output of `fdisk -l' as well as of `mount' once you did the unmount. Also provide your /etc/fstab - thanks.

Comment 2 Michael Eickenboom 2005-12-21 08:24:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please attach the output of `fdisk -l' as well as of `mount' once you did the
> unmount. Also provide your /etc/fstab - thanks.

fdisk -l:
Platte /dev/hda: 80.0 GByte, 80026361856 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 9729 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 a 512 = 8225280 Bytes

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         851     6835626   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             852        9729    71312535    5  Erweiterte
/dev/hda5             852        1039     1510078+  82  Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            1040        9729    69802393+  83  Linux


/etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1            /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/hda6            /home                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/hda5            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder     /media/dvdrecorder   subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0


When I submitted this bug (if it really is one) mounting and unmounting gave no output
linux:/ umount /home
linux:/
linux:/ mount /home
linux:/

If I try this now I get:
linux:/ umount /home
linux:/ device /home is busy
linux:/ device /home is busy      //or something like this - and yes, twice
linux:/

I am not aware of having changed anything in the meantime  :-(

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2005-12-21 09:54:33 UTC

Michael, if any process (this might include a shell) has an open file on the filesystem you want to unmount, it will fail with the message that it is busy. This is perfectly normal because it avoids filesystem corruption. Check if you hav e no process running that accesses your home-partition (this might include KDE programs). Shells in the homedir (linux:~) will also cause this.

Comment 4 Michael Eickenboom 2005-12-22 06:51:20 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)

Yes, after changing stopping X (init 3) and logging in as root I could reproduce this behaviour (yesterday it didn´t work, I don´t know which process interferes here. Maybe kjournald?):

linux:~ # cd ..
linux:/ # umount /home
linux:/ # yast          //cool - a bit Debian-like :-)

Same as before: "partition can´t be resized because ist is still mounted" (or something similar)

[btw: after restarting X with 'init 5' I couldn´t log in as user: all I got was a grey box in the top left corner, stating a problem with ksysconfig "check your installation". Logging in as root worked.]

Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2006-01-09 10:09:34 UTC

This has already been fixed in current code base.