id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 5493 Compacting is not possible any more: mount command returns error: mount / is busy grof "Hi,[[BR]] I would like to compact VDI file on Ubuntu 9.10 guest running on top of Windows XP sp3 host using VirtualBox 3.0.11. [[BR]][[BR]] I have followed tutorial - written by me :) - about compacting VDI files: http://wiki.virtualbox.org/page/User:Abcuser/compactVDI, but when I execute command: mount -n -o remount,ro -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /[[BR]] I get error message: ""mount: / is busy"".[[BR]][[BR]] This instructions were working fine on previous version of Ubuntu and VirtualBox - but I have upgraded both the same day, so I don't know which one is causing the problem. Most probably this is Ubuntu 9.10 problem, because it does not permits to remount disk as read-only. But no mather if this is Ubuntu or VirtualBox problem, no more compacting is posible[[BR]][[BR]] The only work-around I have found is to use third-party tool CloneVDI: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422[[BR]] But this is tool only works on Windows hosts, because it is Windows application. It also works on Wine, but we can't expect Linux admin to install Wine, because there are so many problems with it and also a lot of disk would be taken. Regards" defect closed other VirtualBox 3.0.12 invalid Linux other