Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it?

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Mon Dec 17 10:09:26 PST 2007


On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:07:02AM -0800, Yuri wrote:
>I had USB camera connected and recognized as umass0 and mounted as /mnt/camera
>on /dev/da0s1.
>
>Camera was disconnected while it was still mounted.

This triggers known and extremely painful to fix bugs in FreeBSD.
Your best work-around is to use ports/emulators/mtools rather than
mount_msdosfs to to access removable devices.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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