Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:25:27 -0500 From: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> To: dlt@mebtel.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't umount a formerly mounted drive Message-ID: <CAFMmRNy1o8RExje3hsGSrhXNPx1jEVbBZ=rnv=fmZV%2BuUBPqhA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120203143438.GA2798@oriental.arm.org> References: <20120203143438.GA2798@oriental.arm.org>
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On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> wrote: > I have two drives in a x86-64 machine. =A0Drive ada2 has current on it, a= nd > drive ada1 has 9-stable on it. =A0At some point, while running current, I > mounted the /home partition from stable to copy some files and re-ipled > the system into stable. =A0every thing worked properly. =A0Some time late= r I > ipled current again. =A0I then noticed that the stable /home was mounted > on /mnt. =A0I tried to umount it but the operation failed as /dev/ada1p7 > was not considered mounted. =A0Yet 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. =A0Neither system has exhibited any > hiccups. =A0Can 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?
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