Re: mount problems

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

Thanks to all.  However this problem is not solved:

     /rex is an empty directory created as a mount point.

     "sudo fuser /rex" and "sudo fuser /rex"  return nothing.

     There is no /dev/rex

Bob
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"Michael E. Touloumtzis" <toumi01@cai.com> writes

: Try "fuser -v /rex".  I can reproduce your result by making a directory
: current in a shell and then issuing the mount command for it.  This can
: also happen if the directory is current for the file manager in a tool
: such as Star Office or WordPerfect.


> E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl> writes
>  Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes
> > Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com> writes:
> > 
> > >      sudo mount /dev/hda4 or sudo mount /dev/rex
> > > 
> > > I get the response mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /rex busy.
> > > However, df, mount and /mtab all show that /dev/hda4 is not mounted.
> > 
> > Are you sure that you have an *empty* /rex directory before you try mounting?
> 
> A directory need not be empty to mount anything on it.  In fact, in my
> /floppy directory I have a file named "No floppy currently mounted.", so
> I will see this if I type `ls /floppy' when there is no mounted floppy.
> 
> The problem probably is that there is a process which has /dev/rex as
> current directory, or has a file in /dev/rex opened, which makes /rex
> `busy'.