Re: Disappearing directory

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Ken Smith wrote:
> Hi All and happy new year,
>
> Via a cron job a USB disk is mounted on a Centos 6.4 machine for backup
> and dismounted after. I've noticed this failing. See below, the backup
> directory that was in /mnt had disappeared, so creating it again as
> follows...
>
> # cd /mnt
> # mkdir backup
> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup/
> # ls
> backup
> # cd backup/
> # ls
> boot.tar.gz  etc  etc.tar.gz  home  home.tar.gz  ident.txt  lost+found
> named.tar.gz  root.tar.gz  usr.tar.gz  var  var.tar.gz
> # cd ..
> # ls
> backup
> # umount /dev/sdb1
> # ls
>
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
>
> After the umount the directory vanishes. What gives or have I lost the
> plot in 2014. (This works as I'd expect on an old fc14 system I have)
>
> :-) Ken
>
>
>    

Before I'm asked, no there's nothing helpful in messages except advice 
to run fsck on the external disk as its a while since that was done

:-) Ken
>
>    

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