Thanks Martin . Those disk partitions were mounted as /home1 and.home2 thats why it was showing resource busy .Once i unmounted those partitions the asm createdisk command was successfull. Thanks And regards, Anupam On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Martin Bach <development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 05/16/2010 12:30 PM, Anupam Pandey wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to configure ASM through asmlib on my Linux 5 > > machine . > > I am having difficulty at the time of creating ASM disk . it says " Disk > > or resource busy ". > > > > The error message is the clue-is the disk or resource busy? Isn't it > mounted anywhere? What is the output of /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk > /dev/sda6? > > Regards, > > Martin > -- > Martin Bach > OCM 10g > http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach >