Odd mount on /mnt problem

[Raquel]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:06:33 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> > Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> >   
> >>     I was just looking for the pictures on a memory chip and
> >> when I looked at /mnt I discovered THIS computer is mounted
> >> at /mnt! Here is what I see:
> >>
> >> karl at karl-hardy:/mnt$ ls
> >> bin   cdrom  etc   initrd.img      vmlinuz
> >> boot  dev    home  initrd.img.old  vmlinuz.old
> >> karl at karl-hardy:/mnt$ cd
> >> karl at karl-hardy:~$ df -h
> >> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >> /dev/sda6             7.4G  5.0G  2.1G  71% /
> >> varrun                506M  116K  505M   1% /var/run
> >> varlock               506M     0  506M   0% /var/lock
> >> udev                  506M   84K  505M   1% /dev
> >> devshm                506M   60K  505M   1% /dev/shm
> >> lrm                   506M   39M  467M   8% 
> >> /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile
> >> /dev/sda5              19G  8.8G  8.7G  51% /home
> >> gvfs-fuse-daemon      7.4G  5.0G  2.1G  71% /home/karl/.gvfs
> >> karl at karl-hardy:~$
> >>
> >> I do not know what gvfs-fuse-daemon is but it looks odd. It has
> >> nothing as you can see:
> >>
> >> karl at karl-hardy:~$ cd .gvfs/
> >> karl at karl-hardy:~/.gvfs$ ls
> >> karl at karl-hardy:~/.gvfs$
> >>
> >>
> >> I rebooted and the same thing happened just as before.
> >>
> >> Something is mounting /dev/sda6 at /mnt and I can't get it to
> >> stop with sudo umount /mnt because this says nothing is mounted!
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > 	The output of the mount command; and the contents
> > of /etc/fstab would be helpful info here too.
> >
> >   
>     The real odd thing is what you see if you do a ls -al on /mnt:
> karl at karl-hardy:/mnt$ ls -al
> total 52
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 2008-08-11 05:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x  22 root root  4096 2009-01-09 12:26 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2008-08-11 05:44 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2008-08-11 05:44 boot
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  999    11 2008-06-14 11:16 cdrom -> media/cdrom
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 20480 2008-08-11 05:44 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 126 root root 12288 2008-08-11 05:44 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2008-08-11 05:44 home
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 2008-06-17 08:42 initrd.img -> 
> boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 2008-06-14 14:37 initrd.img.old -> 
> boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 2008-06-17 08:42 vmlinuz -> 
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 2008-06-14 14:37 vmlinuz.old -> 
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-18-generic
> karl at karl-hardy:/mnt$
> 
> It looks like many are linked to each other. Really wierd and I
> have no idea why this Hardy has such a thing. I wonder why I can't
> just rm the whole thing.
> 
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
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How about checking the docs before doing something or before going on
a rant?

/usr/share/doc/gvfs-bin/README
   gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the
   i/o abstractions of gio (a library availible in glib >= 2.15.1). It
   installs several modules that are automatically used by
   applications using the APIs of libgio. There is also fuse support
   that allows applications not using gio to access the gvfs
   filesystems.

   The gvfs model differs from e.g. gnome-vfs in that filesystems must
   be mounted before they are used. There is a central daemon (gvfsd)
   that handles coordinting mounts, and then each mount is (typically)
   in its own daemon process (although mounts can share daemon
   process).

   gvfs comes with a set of backends, including trash support, sftp,
   smb, http, dav and others. More backends are planned.

   gvfs also contains modules for gio that implement hal volume
   monitors and the gnome uri-scheme handler configuration.

   There is a set of command line programs starting with "gvfs-" that
   lets you run commands (like cat, ls, stat, etc) on files in the
   gvfs mounts.

And, there are more docs if you just look.

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