* Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not
@ 2021-06-15 15:26 99% ` Dale
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From: Dale @ 2021-06-15 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Jack wrote:
> On 6/15/21 10:21 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Ramon Fischer wrote:
>>> Hello Dale,
>>>
>>> this also happens to me sometimes and the culprit was an open process
>>> still accessing the hard drive. Maybe you can solve it like this:
>>>
>>> $ lsof /mnt/8tb
>>> zsh 8390 root cwd DIR 253,2 4096 27787265 /mnt/8tb
>>> $ kill 8390
>>> $ lsof /mnt/8tb
>>>
>>> After that, you should be able to close the drive via "cryptsetup".
>>>
>>> -Ramon
>>>
>>> On 14/06/2021 06:50, Dale wrote:
>>>> root@fireball / # cryptsetup close 8tb
>>>> Device 8tb is still in use.
>>>> root@fireball / # mount | grep 8tb
>>>> root@fireball / #
>> I've tried lsof before, for both mount point and device, it shows
>> nothing open. It's weird.
>>
>> When this happened last night, just before I posted, I let the drive sit
>> there while I was doing updates. Later on, I tried to close it again
>> and it closed just fine. I hadn't done anything except let it sit
>> there. While I was glad it closed, I wonder why it did it. Did udev
>> finally catch up to the state of the drive? Did some other device
>> update and allow it to close?
>>
>> This is weird. Everything says it is ready to be closed but it thinks
>> something is open. I'm not sure what to point too for the problem. Yet
>> anyway.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip. It was worth mentioning.
>>
>> Dale
>
> Is it possible it was still syncing cache out to the physical drive?
> I wonder if iotop would show any activity for that drive if that's the
> case?
>
> Jack
>
>
>
I may try that next time but the light had stopped blinking for several
minutes. Since it is a SMR drive, I always leave it running until I
can't feel the heads bumping around. I don't think it would be that
but, it's worth a try. It may lead to something.
Will update when it does it again.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
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