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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers UNIX rm -rf error "rm: cannot remove `filename' : Device or resource busy" Post 302524510 by Perderabo on Monday 23rd of May 2011 01:32:23 PM
Old 05-23-2011
You're in a directory that is NFS mounted to your system. That's different then dealing with a local disk. Some process has that file opened. That process will need to close the file or exit.

on mu linux system..
Code:
$ echo fubar > fubar
$ ls -a
.  ..  fubar  one  two
$ df -k .
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
vamain:/vol/vol1     17408962080 13603234592 3805727488  79% /nas01
$ sleep 1000 < fubar &
[1]     7887
$ ls -a
.  ..  fubar  one  two
$ rm fubar
$ ls -a
.  ..  .nfs00000000010005470000001f  one  two
$
$ cat .nfs00000000010005470000001f
fubar
$ kill %1
[1] + Terminated               sleep 1000 < fubar &
$
$ ls -a
.  ..  one  two
$

See? The file disappeared when the process exited.
 

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udisks-daemon

UDISKS-DAEMON(8)						   udisks-daemon						  UDISKS-DAEMON(8)

NAME

       udisks-daemon - udisks Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       udisks-daemon [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       udisks-daemon provides the org.freedesktop.UDisks service on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start
       this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application calls into the org.freedesktop.UDisks service.

       See the udisks(7) man page for information on how to customize how udisks-daemon works.

OPTIONS

       --help
	   Show help options.

AUTHOR

       Written by David Zeuthen david@fubar.dk with a lot of help from many others.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at
       https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks.

SEE ALSO

       udisks(7), udisks(1), udisks-tcp-bridge(1), dbus-daemon(1)

udisks								    April 2008							  UDISKS-DAEMON(8)
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