reusing mount points

[Dj YB]

On Thursday October 21 2010 02:07:09 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:40 +0200, Dj YB wrote:
> > On Wednesday October 20 2010 14:03:31 Sonic wrote:
> > >   On 10/20/2010 11:36 AM, Dj YB wrote:
[...]
> I have the same problem from time to time, though the circumstances are
> not completely clear, i.e. I work a lot with a pendrive and am always
> very careful to mount/umount (via the Device Manager, and watching the
> confirmation icon in the panel when unmounting). Nevertheless, every
> once in a while the unmount seems to leave an undeleted mount point
> behind, as you say. Furthermore, the mountpoint can't be deleted even by
> root as the system seems to think it's still busy. Using 'fuser' shows
> no active processes holding it open, but I've found that logging out
> will enable root to delete the mountpoint.

I have no problem deleting as root the old mount point.

[...]

Regards,
YB.