Incorrect Volume Mounts

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Incorrect Volume Mounts

Been trying to fix this issue for a bit now to limited success. A few weeks ago we had a quick power outage, flickering actually. An external drive was hooked up to my computer so it got disconnected for a second. No biggie so I thought.

Somehow even when the drive is off it appears under /Volumes. Also it then takes the GB stored under that volume and falsely reports it under my main HDD forcing an alert to come up saying I am out of space, which I'm not.

The only way I can fix it is to ssh into my computer go to /Volumes and rm -R DriveName (it's not connected). Then I get my correct disk space used. Issue is, that every time I now connect the drive again, this happens.

I have flushed pram, killall Finder, tried to unmount thru Disk Utility, all to no avail. I thought to look under fstab but the file is blank. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

MBP, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 17, 2010 11:54 AM

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Jul 17, 2010 1:12 PM in response to phpfunk

I'd start with a fix permissions operation. Maybe even try a repair disk.

You can also try the umount command instead of rm -R, which can be a bit dangerous if you're not careful. And you won't likely find anything under fstab, since that's basically a remnant of the olden days. It really hasn't been used in quite a long time on any *nix system. You want to look at /etc/mtab which shows currently mounted filesystems. You can just run mount without any arguments and it should show you the contents. Otherwise, there's always trusty cat and more.

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