[PLUG] NOT QUITE SOLVED Re: Rsync to a NAS drive

[Bill Barry]

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 6:32 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 18:00:19 -0700
> Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:
>
> >On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:51 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> >wrote:
>
> >> From the command line the ls -la command shows /mnt as a directory,
> >> but the permissions are just d??????????, followed by ? for all the
> >> other attributes. I can see the attributes it is supposed to have by
> >> looking at it on my desktop computer (also Xubuntu 14.04), which
> >> shows it as owned by root. So I tried 'sudo chown root:root /mnt',
> >> but got 'No such device. I also tried rmdir, but got 'Device or
> >> resource busy.'
>
> >It did not take well to your forced umount. Everything still thinks
> >there is something mounted at /mnt
> >Don't really know  how to solve this, but you can try
> >umount -i /media/jjj/Synology
> >umount -i /mnt
> >See if thunar is ok, then try to mount again where you want it.
>
> umount -i /media/jjj/Synology
> umount: /media/jjj/Synology is not in the fstab (and you are not root)
>
> I got the same message when I tried it on /mnt.
>
> The only things in fstab are / and /home.
>
> I'm afraid to reboot. Rebooting will umount everything, except /
> and /home will be remounted, so that should clear up part of the problem
> with /mnt. But what about the missing permissions and other stuff?
>

It might even have trouble rebooting.
I am just stabbing in the dark at this point but you can try
umount --lazy /media/jjj/Synology
umount --lazy /mnt

Bill