From owner-freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 13:33:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: jail@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A5D1065674 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:33:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (mail1.sourcehosting.net [74.205.51.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAD28FC12 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Qvqdm-00056m-GY; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:03:42 -0400 Received: from v104.entropy.prv (v104.entropy.prv [192.168.1.104]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371F151D704A; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:03:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E53A532.7080801@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:03:46 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Redd Vinylene References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.189.245.235 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glarkin@FreeBSD.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail1.sourcehosting.net X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, RDNS_DYNAMIC, TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail1.sourcehosting.net) Cc: jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old jail dir reappears after reboot - why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: "Discussion about FreeBSD jail\(8\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:33:44 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/23/11 4:48 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> After rebooting my host server, some old dir I once had my jails in >> reappears. What might be the cause of that and how do I stop it? >> >> More specifically, I once had my jails in /jail, but now I've moved them >> all into /jails. rc.conf or fstab does not reference /jail and I can't >> find any file on my system that does - so why does this dir keep reappearing >> all the time? >> >> I have to umount it before I can delete it though. >> >> Anybody know? >> >> Thanks! > > > Can somebody help me? > > Redd Hi Redd, What is the output of "df /jail"? Is that directory on the same mounted filesystem as any other directories? I assume that you executed "rm -rf /jail" after you moved your jail directories to /jails? If you've done that, it may not hurt to fsck the device to make sure there aren't any filesystem problems. Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5TpTIACgkQ0sRouByUApBdLwCfSTowJ2soh+hskt+urzQMTieT IMUAmwdHM6z5fdbiUYUaJ2snPJnERCTz =fbYu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----