Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:50:53 -0500 From: Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't umount a formerly mounted drive Message-ID: <20120203185053.GA11019@oriental.arm.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNy1o8RExje3hsGSrhXNPx1jEVbBZ=rnv=fmZV%2BuUBPqhA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120203143438.GA2798@oriental.arm.org> <CAFMmRNy1o8RExje3hsGSrhXNPx1jEVbBZ=rnv=fmZV%2BuUBPqhA@mail.gmail.com>
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* Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> [120203 13:41]: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> wrote: > > I have two drives in a x86-64 machine. Drive ada2 has current on it, and > > drive ada1 has 9-stable on it. At some point, while running current, I > > mounted the /home partition from stable to copy some files and re-ipled > > the system into stable. every thing worked properly. Some time later I > > ipled current again. I then noticed that the stable /home was mounted > > on /mnt. I tried to umount it but the operation failed as /dev/ada1p7 > > was not considered mounted. Yet with out mounting I could access all > > the files on stable's /home, I could create and delete files. > > > > The current system was cvsup'ed on Wednesday this week, while the stable > > system was cvsup'ed last Sunday. Neither system has exhibited any > > hiccups. Can somebody explain what has happened her on the current > > system and how it should be corrected? > > Does "mount" list anything as being mounted on /mnt? If not, are you > sure that /mnt isn't a symlink to somewhere else? Or maybe the > contents of the home directory were copied to /mnt by accident? mount command on the current system does not list anything under /mnt. ls /mnt on the current system list the top level directories on ada1p7, the stable /home. It lists them as soon as a user logs in on a newly booted current system. It's really frustrating. -- Best regards, Derek Tattersall dlt@mebtel.net dlt666@yahoo.com dtatters@gmail.com
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