While removing ASM disk, getting: "Clearing disk header: oracleasm-write-label: Unable to open device "/dev/oracleasm/disks/<DISK>": Device or resource busy"
Issue
- Why can't delete ASM disk ?
oracleasm deletedisk
command is getting failed.- While deleting
ASM disk
, getting below error:
# oracleasm deletedisk -v <DISK>
Clearing disk header: oracleasm-write-label: Unable to open device "/dev/oracleasm/disks/<DISK>": Device or resource busy
failed
Unable to clear disk "<DISK>"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6.8.
oracleasm
.- Oracle RAC cluster.
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