mounted multiple times

[Trevor TeC Christian]

On Wed, November 30, 2005 12:55 pm, Jack Tanner said:
> 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

Hope this helps.

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