From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 6 13:25:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D772E1065677 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lhecking@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from ns1.cypress.com (ns1.cypress.com [157.95.67.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BCC8FC0C for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lhecking@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from corpmail.cypress.com (corpmail [157.95.1.2]) by ns1.cypress.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id mB6DDRum021705 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 05:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cork.irdesign.cypress.com (cork.irdesign.cypress.com [157.95.24.1]) by corpmail.cypress.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id mB6DDLo6021942 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 05:13:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from cork.irdesign.cypress.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cork.irdesign.cypress.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE884E4A6 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:13:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by cork.irdesign.cypress.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id 4BE834E625; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:13:20 +0000 (GMT) From: lhecking@users.sourceforge.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <20081206131320.4BE834E625@cork.irdesign.cypress.com> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 13:13:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Disappearing mount point X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:25:34 -0000 I have a really weird problem. After changing the mount point of a Linux ext3 fs to a different device, the mount point disappears after mounting and is inaccessible. Disk layout: ad4s1 Linux ext3 ad4s2 FreeBSD ad4s3 Linux ext3 ad4s4 ext ad4s5 Linux swap ad4s6 Linux ext3 ad4s7 Linux ext3 ad4s8 Linux ext3 Mounting ad4s7 under FreeBSD as /dev/ad4s7 /gentoo-portage ext2fs rw 0 0 Then I moved this data to ad4s8 and changed the fstab entry accordingly: /dev/ad4s8 /gentoo-portage ext2fs rw 0 0 And this happens: [root@jeanie ~]# cd / [root@jeanie /]# ls .cshrc cdrom etc mnt tmp .profile compat gentoo-portage proc usr .snap dev home rescue var COPYRIGHT dist lib root bin distfiles libexec sbin boot entropy media sys [root@jeanie /]# mount /gentoo-portage [root@jeanie /]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s2a 1012974 345748 586190 37% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad4s2f 1010964 22324 907764 2% /home /dev/ad4s2d 4058062 38 3733380 0% /tmp /dev/ad4s2e 20308398 6763976 11919752 36% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc linprocfs 4 4 0 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc /dev/ad4s8 9929540 4505212 4923908 48% /gentoo-portage [root@jeanie /]# ls ls: gentoo-portage: Bad file descriptor .cshrc bin dev etc media root usr .profile boot dist home mnt sbin var .snap cdrom distfiles lib proc sys z COPYRIGHT compat entropy libexec rescue tmp [root@jeanie /]# uname -a FreeBSD jeanie.my.domain 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #8: Mon Sep 1 09:14:51 IST 2008 root@jeanie.my.domain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JEANIE i386 I changed the filesystem on /dev/ad4s8 to ext2, but the problem persists. No idea what's going on :-/