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Re: Mount Points



At 6:02 PM +0100 8/26/06, Mark Gilbert wrote:
Folks.

I am seeing a strange behaviour sometimes when mounting afp network volumes on an Intel iMac.

Essentially the OS is creating more than one /Volumes representation for the drive, depending on what steps have occurred, and its creating a persistent entry in /Volumes which I can't 'unmount'

Yes, it's probably a real directory. So it can't be unmounted. These are commonly referred to ass mountpoints. They are normally automagically created and destroyed when the OS mounts a volume.


Sometimes you'll lose a mount and a mountpoint won't be destroyed. You'll have to rm it manually.

So, I have 2 questions:

1) What is this phantom directory ?

A directory. The directory used as the mountpoint in the fileysystem.

2) How do I solve my problem and avoid this in the field ?

Remove rogoue mountpoints. --

-dhan

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