Fred Smith <fredex at ...> writes: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 07:05:31PM +0000, 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... > > <SNIP> > What does mount say is mounted after running your backup script? An explanation is that the script mounts something directly on /mnt and it's still mounted after the script runs. Unmount that (there may be several if you've been playing with it for a while). Cheers, Dave