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 > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos