I have to move a lpar from one 671 to another (aix 5.2 ML 07)

when I run mksysb, It alway hangs with "archieving file list"


I've tried to exlude every directory, but still not working

the only thing that can be a problem, is a hardlink directory

normally it should not be possible to hardlink a directory, but its there and I have no idea how to remove it

it's in the /tmp filesystem

drwxrwxrwt 29 bin bin 6656 Nov 23 10:30 /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 29 bin bin 6656 Nov 23 10:30 /tmp/tmptest

edit: and they have the same inode-number

tmptest points to tmp

when I remove tmptest with rm -r, then all files in /tmp will be deleted too


there is no way of shutting the machine down or stop the application, expect for the time I need to shutdown the old lpar an boot the new one

any ideas?


thanks for your help,

funksen

Looking at a manual for 5.3, I see that AIX has unlink in /usr/sbin. So I would try:
unlink /tmp/tmptest

NB unlink is very dangerous command and should be used with considerable restraint. But I think that, in this very unusual situation, it is the only way out short of rebuilding the filesystem containing /tmp.

thanks for the answer, I've tried that before

>> unlink: The requested resource is busy.

but I think you are right, I have rebuild the file system

whats strange to me is the fact that it's called "tmptest", I think a funny guy tried something what he has lerned in AIX course, attached with "don't try this at home"

grml..

Try fuser /tmp/tmptest

I know why it's busy, thats not the problem

but I can't shut the application down