[nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Peter C. Norton wrote:

> If your goal is retrieving the data, you could try to attach to the
> device with debug2fs and poke around. It's possible that it's not (just)
> the mount point but something borderline about the metadata that you
> could find out about.
> 
> Though, I can't think of any flags that could/should interfere with the
> kernels or mounts opinion of the state of a filesystem, I do want to
> make sure that the tool was mentioned.
Keep in mind, 'mount' without arguments displays data from /etc/mtab, 
which does not necessarily correspond to kernel's idea of what is mounted 
or not. To see what is the kernel's idea, cat /proc/mounts 

Also, try umount -f to force the unmount.

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