On 02-Feb-00 Romano Giannetti wrote:
># rmdir /mov
> rmdir: /mov: No such file or directory
>
># mkdir /mov
> mkdir: cannot make directory `/mov': File exists
>
> (Note: the other autofs mountpoints are /rem and /net). Now, fuser
> give no user of the /mov directory, and switching to single user and
> umounting all but / doesn't change the situation. Nor reboot. I have
> to force a fsck on the root partition (that, BTW, goes away without
> errors nor warnings) and then the autofs works again.
>
> What kinf of information should I recollect when it will happen again?
> To help track down this?
It looks like /mov has an autofs filesystem mounted on it. What does mount
say (or cat /proc/mounts)? Is there an autofs process? You can try umount
/mov; if that doesn't work, you can ls -l /mov/z; umount /mov (the ls will put
the autofs into catatonic mode if the automount process has died).
J
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