Odd mount on /mnt problem

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
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> Karl F. Larsen schreef:
>>     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!
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
> Hello Karl,
> 
> You have a question about a mount.
> You should give the output of "mount" and the output of "cat /etc/fstab".
> 

	That was my reply too, but we both forgot that Karl likes to just spew 
comments here like it was his blog, and not actually listen to  us when 
we ask for more info to actually try and help him....

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