i've tried to do what you said:
it's Linux 2.4.9
and reserfs.
undercat# mount --verbose /tmp
mount: /dev/hda8 already mounted or /tmp busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda8 is already mounted on /tmp
it is your particular kernel and/or filesystem and/or mount utility
that is failing....
Max.
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a "mount" problem with kernel 2.4.X (2.4.2-2, 2.4.7,...2.4.18)
>
> When you try to mount a local or remote file system to a specific mount point,
> and you issue the same command several time, to the SAME mount point,
> you will not get an warning, that this mount point is already mounted.
>
> Instead, you'll get several duplicated entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab.
> The "df" command will of course output the same multiple entries.
>
> One umount command removes ALL the entries from /etc/mtab when kernel 2.4
> is tailored to RedHat 6.2, but you need the same number of umounts, as of the
> mounts done in RedHat 7.1 .
>
> Has somebody encountered such a problem ? How to resolve it ?
>
> In kernrels 2.2.X an ttempt to mount fails, with the expected message:
>
> mount: /filesystem already mounted or /mountpoint busy
> mount: according to mtab, /filesystem is already mounted on /mountpoint
>
> Thanks,
>
> Avi Koski
>
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