How to remove the /home directory on RHEL 7.3
Issue
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Removing the
/homedirectory fails withDevice or resource busyerror even though/homeis not a mount point:# rmdir /home rmdir: failed to remove ‘/home’: Device or resource busy
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3
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