Re: mounted multiple times

["Trevor \"TeC\" Christian" <trevor bouyon dalive com>]

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:
> >    
> >
> > > 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
> >
> >    
>
> Mount does not leave an active process running.  Thus this would have no
> affect.  Did you test your idea?
>
>  
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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