mounted multiple times

Trevor "TeC" Christian trevor at bouyon.dalive.com
Thu Dec 1 02:49:58 UTC 2005


Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:26 -0400, Trevor TeC Christian wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, November 30, 2005 12:55 pm, Jack Tanner said:
>>    
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>>>On an FC4 client, I'm mounting an smbfs filesystem over the network. In
>>>/etc/fstab, I have
>>>
>>>//server/share /mount/point smbfs
>>>credentials=/home/user/.smbcreds,noauto,user  0 0
>>>
>>>The user's .bash_profile contains the actual mount command, which goes off
>>>without a hitch. Consequently, the user can issue
>>>
>>>$ umount /mount/point
>>>
>>>when necessary.
>>>
>>>It's all well and good, until the user connects to the FC4 client twice,
>>>and
>>>runs two xterms which both source .bash_profile.
>>>
>>>Now the mount command has been issued twice, so here's what happens:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Should script such that the share isn't mounted unless it isn't already
>>mounted.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>$ umount /mount/point
>>>umount: it seems /mount/point is mounted multiple times
>>>
>>>Well, yes, it has been mounted multiple times; but how can the user
>>>unmount
>>>it now?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>One should be able to use ps to find the PID of the mounts and kill them
>>directly i believe.
>>
>>  ps ax | grep mount
>>
>>then kill -9 the corresponding PID's
>>
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>
>Mount does not leave an active process running.  Thus this would have no
>affect.  Did you test your idea?
>
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>
Yea... I've done it in the past mostly when accidentally mounting a 
samba share that was already mounted.  I killed the mounts and it worked.

Tried it today on my current machine and had no effect. I posted the 
solution that worked for me.

>>Hope this helps.
>>
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