Files disappearing from mounted partitions

[Dotan Cohen]

On 01/10/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
 >> Does /etc/mtab say they are mounted?  Sound like they may not be.
> >
> >Gene, you're right, the partitions aren't mounted.
> >
> >They were all mounted a few hours ago. And they umounted one by one.
> >Why could that be? I'm a bit worried.
>
> I think I'd be doing some back searching in the logs for clues.  Maybe you
> had a power glitch that rebooted the machine and they weren't ready at
> mount time?  Thats not even a WAG, let alone a SWAG though.  I think I'd
> reboot from cold, and see if that fixes it.  I don't know of anything that
> would cause them to spontainiously unmount though.  Mount doesn't to my
> knowledge have a timeout option but a flakey psu or a power glitch can do
> black magic things occasionally.  One of the reasons I have a ups on
> everything here.
>

No, there was certainly no pwer outage as I've been sitting here on
this machine all day (and then some). And I did reboot at soon as I
saw the files were missing from the first of the mounts- I thought
that I accidentally erased them and I wanted to umount to partition
before things got overwritten in the hopes of recovering. So rebooting
isn't always the answer.

Dotan
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