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Old 12-04-2007
Error /etc/mnttab is zero length - I have done a silly thing

Being the clever-clogs that I am, I have managed to clobber the contents of /etc/mnttab.

It started when I tried to unmount all the volumes in a prticular veritas disk group and neglected to include a suitable grep in my command line, thus attempting to unmount _all_ the filesystems on the server (for loop).

They all came back with a fs busy message so I was presuming no harm done. However, a df to check all was in order came back with no results, likewise running mount.

When I went to look in the mnttab itself I find it's zero length !?! Smilie

Everything appears ok in that the filesystems are still actually mounted and read/write.

If I try a mount or umount I get the message
"mount: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

I suspect a reboot would sort me out but that's a big hammer and I'd rather get to the bottom of it.

What have I done and how in the world do I fix it?

Running solaris 10 on a T2000, fairly recent patches applied. Bugger all running aside from base OS and SAN kit.
 

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UMOUNT(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 UMOUNT(2)

NAME
umount, umount2 - unmount filesystem SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/mount.h> int umount(const char *target); int umount2(const char *target, int flags); DESCRIPTION
umount() and umount2() remove the attachment of the (topmost) filesystem mounted on target. Appropriate privilege (Linux: the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability) is required to unmount filesystems. Linux 2.1.116 added the umount2() system call, which, like umount(), unmounts a target, but allows additional flags controlling the behav- ior of the operation: MNT_FORCE (since Linux 2.1.116) Ask the filesystem to abort pending requests before attempting the unmount. This may allow the unmount to complete without waiting for an inaccessible server, but could cause data loss. If, after aborting requests, some processes still have active references to the filesystem, the unmount will still fail. As at Linux 4.12, MNT_FORCE is supported only on the following filesystems: 9p (since Linux 2.6.16), ceph (since Linux 2.6.34), cifs (since Linux 2.6.12), fuse (since Linux 2.6.16), lustre (since Linux 3.11), and NFS (since Linux 2.1.116). MNT_DETACH (since Linux 2.4.11) Perform a lazy unmount: make the mount point unavailable for new accesses, immediately disconnect the filesystem and all filesystems mounted below it from each other and from the mount table, and actually perform the unmount when the mount point ceases to be busy. MNT_EXPIRE (since Linux 2.6.8) Mark the mount point as expired. If a mount point is not currently in use, then an initial call to umount2() with this flag fails with the error EAGAIN, but marks the mount point as expired. The mount point remains expired as long as it isn't accessed by any process. A second umount2() call specifying MNT_EXPIRE unmounts an expired mount point. This flag cannot be specified with either MNT_FORCE or MNT_DETACH. UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW (since Linux 2.6.34) Don't dereference target if it is a symbolic link. This flag allows security problems to be avoided in set-user-ID-root programs that allow unprivileged users to unmount filesystems. RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
The error values given below result from filesystem type independent errors. Each filesystem type may have its own special errors and its own special behavior. See the Linux kernel source code for details. EAGAIN A call to umount2() specifying MNT_EXPIRE successfully marked an unbusy filesystem as expired. EBUSY target could not be unmounted because it is busy. EFAULT target points outside the user address space. EINVAL target is not a mount point. EINVAL umount2() was called with MNT_EXPIRE and either MNT_DETACH or MNT_FORCE. EINVAL (since Linux 2.6.34) umount2() was called with an invalid flag value in flags. ENAMETOOLONG A pathname was longer than MAXPATHLEN. ENOENT A pathname was empty or had a nonexistent component. ENOMEM The kernel could not allocate a free page to copy filenames or data into. EPERM The caller does not have the required privileges. VERSIONS
MNT_DETACH and MNT_EXPIRE are available in glibc since version 2.11. CONFORMING TO
These functions are Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended to be portable. NOTES
umount() and shared mount points Shared mount points cause any mount activity on a mount point, including umount() operations, to be forwarded to every shared mount point in the peer group and every slave mount of that peer group. This means that umount() of any peer in a set of shared mounts will cause all of its peers to be unmounted and all of their slaves to be unmounted as well. This propagation of unmount activity can be particularly surprising on systems where every mount point is shared by default. On such sys- tems, recursively bind mounting the root directory of the filesystem onto a subdirectory and then later unmounting that subdirectory with MNT_DETACH will cause every mount in the mount namespace to be lazily unmounted. To ensure umount() does not propagate in this fashion, the mount point may be remounted using a mount() call with a mount_flags argument that includes both MS_REC and MS_PRIVATE prior to umount() being called. Historical details The original umount() function was called as umount(device) and would return ENOTBLK when called with something other than a block device. In Linux 0.98p4, a call umount(dir) was added, in order to support anonymous devices. In Linux 2.3.99-pre7, the call umount(device) was removed, leaving only umount(dir) (since now devices can be mounted in more than one place, so specifying the device does not suffice). SEE ALSO
mount(2), mount_namespaces(7), path_resolution(7), mount(8), umount(8) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2017-09-15 UMOUNT(2)
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