umount deleting folder?

[tb205gti]

Now this is strange, I have a Fedora12 install that behaves pretty strange.

I have a mountpoint eg. /backup where I mount my backup drive.

Now when I unmount the drive (umount /backup) the drive is unmounted - but the folder is also deleted.. Now why does this happen? It has not been a problem with any of my Fedora installs (going all the way back from Redhat6)

[jbkt23]

I don't have an anwer but I am curious. How did you create the mount point? In a terminal as root via:

# cd /
# mkdir backup

So are you manually mounting the backup device to /backup ?

[tb205gti]

Originally Posted by jbkt23

I don't have an anwer but I am curious. How did you create the mount point? In a terminal as root via:

# cd /
# mkdir backup

So are you manually mounting the backup device to /backup ?

I log into it via ssh, run a std. bash shell.

I make the dir:

mkdir /backup
I mount the drive
mount /dev/sdc /backup

I do "my thing" (backup)

the I unmount it
umount /backup

then ls to see contents - and bang it's gone..

[diamond_ramsey]

tb205gti, thank you for your posts.

Originally Posted by tb205gti

I make the dir:

mkdir /backup
I mount the drive
mount /dev/sdc /backup...

Yes, interesting indeed.

How's this, after doing your mkdir /backup

display

ls -latr /backup

After doing your mount /dev/sdc /backup

display

more /etc/mtab

[tb205gti]

Originally Posted by diamond_ramsey

tb205gti, thank you for your posts.

Yes, interesting indeed.

How's this, after doing your mkdir /backup

display

ls -latr /backup

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-05 08:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2010-01-05 08:01 ..

Hmm why is there a total of 8 ??

Originally Posted by diamond_ramsey

After doing your mount /dev/sdc /backup

display

more /etc/mtab

/dev/mapper/vg_moon-lv_root / ext4 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
/dev/sdd /shared/MAXTOR_III ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sdb /shared/MAXTOR ext2 rw 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /root/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sdc /backup ext2 rw 0 0

[diamond_ramsey]

tb205gti, thank you for your posts.

Originally Posted by tb205gti

...total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-01-05 08:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2010-01-05 08:01 ..

Hmm why is there a total of 8 ??
.../dev/sdc /backup ext2 rw 0 0

> Hmm why is there a total of 8 ??

Good question, I don't know.

Next, let's execute and post the output for the following two commands:

umask -S

and

umask

[root@localhost /]# umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
[root@localhost /]# umask
0022

[tb205gti]

Originally Posted by diamond_ramsey

tb205gti, thank you for your posts.



> Hmm why is there a total of 8 ??

Good question, I don't know.

Next, let's execute and post the output for the following two commands:

umask -S

and

umask

[root@localhost /]# umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
[root@localhost /]# umask
0022

Thank you for your posts, highly appreciated

umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx

umask
0022