[X-Unix] Mysterious Volume in Terminal

[Richard Hartman]

On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Scott E Lasley wrote:

> I've run into this sort of thing before when a backup script went  
> haywire.  Back2 is a directory in the /Volumes directory, not an  
> actual volume that would show up in the Finder or disk utilities.  
> Notice the drwxr-xr-x permissions for Back2 vs the lrwxr-xr-x  
> permissions for iMac20.  If you open the /Volumes directory, e.g.  
> using the Go->Go to Folder... menu item, you will see Back2 and can  
> delete it.  Or you can delete it from Terminal using sudo rm -r / 
> Volumes/Back2.  Deleting from the Finder is safer in case of a typo  
> in the sudo rm command.
>
> In my case, the simple script I used called rsync to back up to a  
> volume named Backup: rsync -av /Users /Volumes/Backup.  When the  
> script ran once and the Backup volume was not mounted, rsync created  
> a /Volumes/Backup directory and backed up /Users to that directory.
>
>
> hth,
> Scott

On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:17 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 03/09/08, Richard Hartman <seasoft at west.net> wrote:
>>
>> This is giving me fits.
>>

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>> How do I delete this rogue volume and make it disappear from my
>> Volumes listing? And, presumably, recover a bit of disk space in the
>> process.
>
> A classic "false backup/clone" which occurs when using SuperDuper!  
> or Carbon
> Copy Cloner and the app loses connection to the original target HD.  
> See
> <http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=3852> for details. Just  
> run this in
> the Terminal:
>
> sudo rm -R /Volumes/Back2


You guys are marvelous. I kind of thought something like this was  
going on, but was too intimidated to try the deletion.

Problem Solved; thanks so very much.

Richard