Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 12:50:31 -0500 From: Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> To: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> Cc: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't umount a formerly mounted drive Message-ID: <20120204175031.GA1995@oriental.arm.org> In-Reply-To: <20120204045839.05be4572@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20120203143438.GA2798@oriental.arm.org> <CAFMmRNy1o8RExje3hsGSrhXNPx1jEVbBZ=rnv=fmZV%2BuUBPqhA@mail.gmail.com> <20120203185053.GA11019@oriental.arm.org> <20120204045839.05be4572@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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* Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> [120204 06:24]: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:50:53 -0500 > Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> wrote: > > > * 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. > > > > Well, it certainly looks like Ryan's suggestion that files from /home were > copied to /mnt (with nothing mounted on it) is correct. > > Try mounting /home to a different location, like /mnt1, and compare the > dates on the suspicious files. Wouldn't surprise me to find that they > differ. > > -- > Gary Jennejohn You and Ryan are absolutely right - the problem was my looking for a complicated answer. I can't quite figure how I copied the whole file system but that's what I did. Thanks for pointing out my incorrect direction. -- Best regards, Derek Tattersall dlt@mebtel.net dlt666@yahoo.com dtatters@gmail.com
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