On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:59:52PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > I first noticed this on my desktop which is running LFS-svn with > > make-4.0, and where I've got more than enough other things still to > > look at. But on my server running 7.4 I've just done: > > > > mount /scratch > > [ /me does something there ] > > umount /scratch > > > > which returns - > > umount: /scratch: mountpoint not found > > > > and /scratch is still mounted. Any ideas about what is going on, > > please ? > > No, but you can always 'umount /dev/sd??' > > -- Bruce > Well, root can, so thanks for that (all too often, I'm too close to the problem and can't see the wood for the trees). - /scratch is where I use the spare space from modern disks : it doesn't get backed up [ what a waste of space that would be! ] and either ken or lfs can use it - or indeed /root when updating the system.
One day, I suppose I'll find out what else needs to be changed so that users can umount it again. Meanwhile, only about another 30 packages to test (mostly DESTDIR) on *this* build with make-4.0. I'd better get back to preparing my scripts for the *next* build - all the remaining rubbish^Wthings I don't normally build. ;-) Thanks. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
