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Re: mount inconsistencies



On Lu, 12 mai 14, 21:57:13, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot investigate this any further because I had to
> reboot the system which cleared things up. But I would still like to
> know how to fix such a situation.
> 
> I only noticed it because my backup script complained about the missing
> path. Prior to running the backup, it checks whether the filesystem is
> already mounted and mounts it if it is not mounted yet. That failed
> because mount reported that the filesystem is mounted while the mount
> point was empty.

Maybe it was related to /etc/mtab being (or not) a symlink to 
/proc/mounts? Just something else to look into if you ever encounter 
this again.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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