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Corey_Chandler · Aug 2, 2004, 11:30 AM

Hi everyone,

When I access /Volumes/ from the terminal, I can see a number of copies of a directory that I access at work (mockups, mockups-1, mockups-2, mockups-3). These directories don't actually show up in the finder, but applications that try to access the volume get confused, which is how I found out about them.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of these "ghost voumes"? Unmount didn't work, and neither did using "disktool" commands.

Thanks!

- Corey

larkost · Aug 2, 2004, 01:21 PM

Sometimes when a SBM volume unmounts uncleanly it will leave the "mount point" (a regular folder that gets changes in the mounting process) behind. If the unmounting process finnished, then you can probably just 'sudo rmdir' them away. Or... you could just restart and they will probably be taken care of for you.

I ran into this problem with a few of my scripts and so I created an AppleScript snippet that I use to grab the 'POSIX path' to the named mount points. For shell scripts I just use this through osascript.