[SLE] Phantom directories...
Greetings! I set up an additional hard drive on my SuSE 6.3 linux box by using YAST. I initially created a mountpoint called /oldwindow to confirm that I could see the contents of my old Windows drive. I deleted that mountpoint, repartition the drive for swap and native linux, and I set a new mountpoint called /newhome. After copying over the old home folder to the new drive, renamed the home directory /oldhome, I deleted the /newhome mountpoint and replace it with /home. The mountpoints for /home and /oldhome are valid, but I got these phantom mountpoints hanging around: /oldwin and /newhome. I checked fstab file, and it doesn't list these old mountpoints. Is there file that I should be looking at to delete these old moutpoints? Thanks! Christopher Reimer -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
I set up an additional hard drive on my SuSE 6.3 linux box by using YAST. I initially created a mountpoint called /oldwindow to confirm that I could see the contents of my old Windows drive. I deleted that mountpoint, repartition the drive for swap and native linux, and I set a new mountpoint called /newhome. After copying over the old home folder to the new drive, renamed the home directory /oldhome, I deleted the /newhome mountpoint and replace it with /home. The mountpoints for /home and /oldhome are valid, but I got these phantom mountpoints hanging around: /oldwin and /newhome.
I checked fstab file, and it doesn't list these old mountpoints. Is there file that I should be looking at to delete these old moutpoints?
After all the dust had settled, did you try doing an rmdir on them? They're probably just empty directories now. In general, a mountpoint is an empty directory until you do the mount. Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
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I checked fstab file, and it doesn't list these old mountpoints. Is there file that I should be looking at to delete these old moutpoints?
After all the dust had settled, did you try doing an rmdir on them? They're probably just empty directories now. In general, a mountpoint is an empty directory until you do the mount.
DOH! For some reason I thought it was an automatic thing that appears and disappears depending on a particular config file. The dust had settled, and I should be able to remove the directories now. I completely forgot about that... Thanks! Christopher -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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