Re: du vs. df inconsistency

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Jameel Akari wrote:
> > > Feb  4 10:54:01 alb-ndm kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. 
> > > Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
> > > Feb  4 10:56:32 alb-ndm kernel: XFS: Filesystem sd(8,5) has duplicate 
> > > UUID - can't mount
> >
> > The unmount failed beause xfs thought something was still busy, but the
> > kernel did not. Looks like a reference count leak somewhere in the old
> > kernel.
>
> That's what I figured.  I'll definitely move this to the top of "reasons 
> to upgrade already!" pile. (I'd do it tomorrow if there were some 
> XFS-patched RHEL kernels ready to go... ;)
> > If you reboot and run repair you should be ok.
>
> I found some mention of this on the mailing list where it was suggested 
> to `mount -o nouuid`.  This worked for me - the filesystem recovered 
> itself, and I see the freed space now.
You still have a dangling dead mount inside the kernel, a reboot at an
opportune moment will clean that up.

Steve