On Tuesday 16 March 2004 11:35 pm, David B. Carter wrote: > I was fooling around the other day, and I reinstalled Windows 2000 Pro and > Mandrake 9.2 in a dual-boot setup. I have a secondary 6GB hard drive that > I wanted to see if I could partition and format as a single FAT32 > partition that could be read/written by both OS's. It worked! In MDK 9.2, > it is mounted as /winshare. > > Now, I'm playing again. I opened DiskDrake, and (I thought) deleted the > /winshare partition, reformatted using ext3 and mounted it as /var/servers > for putting my FTP and WWW stuff. Now, when I restart, I have a > /var/servers AND a /winshare. > > How come I still have /winshare? I thought I got rid of it!
David, the act of creating a mount point and mounting a partition involves two separate things. First, you create an actual mount point directory off of root. That directory is there regardless of whether the partition is mounted or not. Second, you create an fstab entry that tells the mount -a command what partition to mount and what mount point to use. Once you issue the mount command, the empty mount point directory is no longer empty and you will see the contents of the partition. You have now removed the winshare partition and it is no longer being mounted but the mount point directory still exists. You simply need to go out as root and issue the rm -r /winshare command and it will remove the empty directory. Make sure that it is empty first, ls /winshare -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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