On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:51:58PM -0000, Chris Dobbs wrote: > Whenever I do a search on the /scratchbox filesystem I get the folloiwng warnings: > > find: Filesystem loop detected; `/scratchbox/users/maemo4/scratchbox' > has the same device number and inode as a directory which is 3 levels > higher in the filesystem hierarchy. Yep, it's a bind mount. > I seem to remember that when I tried to remove a previous installtaion > of scratchbox I found this problem and never really understood it - I > just unmounted with sbox_unmount and renamed the dir. That's fine. > Can anyone tell me a 'safe' way to remove a scratchobx install as I am > planning to upgrade soon - or is there an upgrade method rather than > blowing away my old install? I've installed scratchbox with apt-get, and that's how I'll upgrade it if I ever need to. Otherwise, use sbox_ctl stop, which should unmount that bind mount. > Also I found that even thought I removed /scratchbox , when I > re-installed it seemed to remember my scratchbox users? If you used apt-get, then I'm not surprised -- IIRC the install script asks you to select the scratchbox users, and that choice is stored in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Marius Gedminas -- Please don't put a strain on our friendship by asking me to do something for you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20080105/0b991ce2/attachment.pgp
