On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Robert Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net>
>> I have a 360 Gb external drive. When I back up my system (that has 3
>> linux distros installed) with Clonezilla, the drive appears mounted as 7
>> separate [partitions] (/media/disk, /media/disk-1 thru /media/disk-6).
>
> FTFY. ("disk" != "partition", remember.)
I know. I was just stating how the computer showed it.
> You have an automounter of
> some type running. I *HATE* automounters, and I always turn them off,
> but YMMV. Which version of which distro are you running? Check its
> docs for how to turn off the automounter, or how to live with the
> automounter if you decide you want it.
Would an automounter run amok with one usb device and not another? There
is no problem with my 2 Gb key drive. Also, do you know of a reason the
problem would appear after some months of functioning correctly?
>> itself is weird but isn't the main problem. The real hangup is that I
>> can't unmount any of them. If I run umount as root on them the icon
>> will disappear from the desktop but /etc/mtab and "ls /media" both show
>> them all as still mounted.
>
> Automounter again. The default seems to be that if a filesystem has
> not been accessed for more than 60 seconds, it will be umounted. If
> you have some sort of indexing program like beagle running, it'll
> of course be running over everything. To figure out which processes
> are using a file (or a filesystem), use lsof or fuser. HTH,
I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and there is a package named Tracker that is an
indexing program. I think it was running at the time but I'm not sure. I
need to do some more digging.
Thanks for the reply.
--
Bob Holtzman
A fair fight is the result of poor planning.
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