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How to umount / ? It's busy
I'm trying to use zerofree, which seems to be the answer for this: How to reduce VM size?
I have successfully umounted /dev/sda1, and zerofree worked fine, releasing ~37gb.
But I can't seem to ...
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Lazy umount or Unmounting a busy disk in Linux
I have read that it is possible to 'umount' a disk that is otherwise busy by using the 'lazy' option. The manpage has this to say about it:
umount - unmount file systems
-l Lazy unmount. ...
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How to properly clone /dev/sda on /dev/sdb
I have two hard disks with the same sizes - represented as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I am trying to copy /dev/sda on /dev/sdb. /dev/sda has one ext3 partition. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb have the same ...
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