unmount pending error on 6.0

[Xin LI]

On 11/10/05, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> wrote:
> I run a recent RELENG_6 from three days ago.  This is my file server
> and all my drives are doubled.  I made a small script that mounts the
> mirror disk, rsync all files to it and finally unmount it.
>
> While testing this script, I interrupted the rsync and the script's trap
> tried to unmount the filesystem.  umount(8) seemed to stall for a couple
> of minutes (I didn't mesure precisely) and finally I get the following
> error message :
>
> % /mnt/mp3-mirror: unmount pending error: blocks 0 files 10
>
> What is this ?  How can I debug it ?

My suggestion is that you re-mount the volume read-only, and then do a
"fsck -fy" over it.  Another thing to bet is to do "fsck -Bfy" over
the volume, which does a background fsck (in cases that you want the
volume to be read-write at the moment).

Cheers,