From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 17:50:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975F11065670 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:50:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dlt@mebtel.net) Received: from mail960c35.nsolutionszone.com (mail960c35.nsolutionszone.com [209.235.152.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE148FC0C for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:50:34 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: dlt.mebtel.net Received: from localhost (99-194-23-158.dyn.centurytel.net [99.194.23.158]) by mail960c35.nsolutionszone.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q14HoWrU004569; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:50:33 GMT Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 12:50:31 -0500 From: Derek Tattersall To: Gary Jennejohn Message-ID: <20120204175031.GA1995@oriental.arm.org> References: <20120203143438.GA2798@oriental.arm.org> <20120203185053.GA11019@oriental.arm.org> <20120204045839.05be4572@ernst.jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120204045839.05be4572@ernst.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.1 cv=4CGYjw/oV8PEeB5vew+vapoQn2uFUEWZZ0PAoVqqWoY= c=1 sm=1 a=z1TLwsU0kBEA:10 a=AOmNu5pVU98A:10 a=P2oOn6vrs4wA:10 a=GPr01A5e9VcA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=5FSmvsqyZ8dLHOg+TByL6Q==:17 a=mK_AVkanAAAA:8 a=xwPayol1AAAA:8 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=CjxXgO3LAAAA:8 a=QqZf8GRMlE7Vur2LoHMA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=9xyTavCNlvEA:10 a=0Ob1RWNGeVAA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=rC2wZJ5BpNYA:10 a=5FSmvsqyZ8dLHOg+TByL6Q==:117 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020201.4F2D6FE9.0084,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 Cc: Ryan Stone , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't umount a formerly mounted drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dlt@mebtel.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:50:35 -0000 * Gary Jennejohn [120204 06:24]: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:50:53 -0500 > Derek Tattersall wrote: > > > * Ryan Stone [120203 13:41]: > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Derek Tattersall 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