On Tue, January 17, 2017 12:39 am, Reco wrote: > EBUSY The rename fails because oldpath or newpath is a directory > that is in use by some process (perhaps as current working directory, or as > root directory, or because it was open for reading) or is in use by the > system (for example as mount point), while the system considers this an > error.
/backup is a directory in / and "lsof | grep /backup" returns nothing. > So, since nothing is using the directory in your case, this means > either that /backup is a mounted filesystem, or your root filesystem > suffers severe damage. I do not suspect damage of the root filesystem, because the machine was booted only a few hours ago. But "cat /etc/mtab" prints the line: /dev/sdb3 /backup ext4 rw,relativetime,data=ordered 0 0 so you have diagnosed the problem, and I thank you! RH
