How to get rid of stale mount points on Solaris 8?
2007-12-24 21:57:00
board a research vessel in the Antarctic region. I don't have access to
a lot of reference materials, and one question has come up a few times -
how to get rid of a stale mount point on Solaris 8 without rebooting?
The first situation was when a CD was removed from the drive without
being unmounted - even stopping and restarting the volume manager had no
effect, and a "mount" command showed the phantom CD there. Rebooting of
course fixed the problem.
The second time this occurred was when a scientist manually mounted a
directory and later the parent directory of the mount point was changed,
leaving a stale entry. It doesn't really hurt anything (I think) but if
we do a "df" or something similar we get the message "cannot statvfs
/the/old/mount/point: No such file or directory". Re-creating the
directory structure and then trying to unmount the filesystem did not
fix the problem.
I actually can reboot these machines without too much harm done, but I
was curious if there is a better way. Please answer me directly, as I
can't receive the volume of mail that being on this list generates.
Also, plain text email is preferable, as we pay for transfers
essentially by the kilobyte.
--jenny
Jennifer L. Fox
Network Administrator
Research Vessel/IceBreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer
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