On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:28:40AM +0100, Michael E. Maher wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 00:58 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:25:11AM +0100, Michael E. Maher wrote: > > > > > > Hey Ken, > > > > > > Does `/etc/mtab' look good? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Michael > > > > > > > Root has now umounted /dev/sdXY, so it is no longer mounted. What > > should I look for if I mount it again and then try to umount it ? > > > > ĸen > > First make sure it's a symlink to `/proc/self/mounts'
Yes for both (the server running 7.4 where I noticed this, and the current desktop machine where I originally saw it). > and check that it > contains a entry like: > > /dev/sdXY /scratch ext4 rw,noquota 0 0 > I've just attempted to umount on the desktop (took me a while to get to a point where nothing was actively using /scratch :) - ken@ac4tv ~ $cat /etc/mtab | grep /scratch /dev/sda14 /scratch ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 ken@ac4tv ~ $umount /scratch/ umount: /scratch: mountpoint not found But root was able to 'umount /scratch' after that. The line in /etc/fstab is: /dev/sda14 /scratch auto noauto,user,rw,exec,suid,dev 0 0 The options are because I sometimes do test chroot builds there. Those settings were working fine until recently. > I might be way off base, but I'm guessing maybe this is within a > `chroot'? > No, regular systems. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
