Funky Mount Problem... Solved!

[Jerry LeVan]

>
> I am using SuperDuper to back up my various disk partitions/macs.
>
> On my MacBookPro I backup to a partition of a largeish firewire
> disk ( three partitions for three drives) The name of the partition
> is MBP
>
> When ever I turn on the drive I get too many open files, mostly
> from notifyd
>
> (Sorry for the wrapping)
> [mbp:~]$ sudo lsof | grep /Volumes/MBP
> Password:
> kextd      25         root    3r      REG      14,4       1667
> 35588 /Volumes/MBP/usr/standalone/bootcaches.plist
> notifyd    62         root   11r      DIR      14,4       8602
> 81417 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/Extensions
> notifyd    62         root   12r      REG      14,4    8570180
> 890899 /Volumes/MBP/mach_kernel
> notifyd    62         root   13r      REG      14,4        338
> 448164 /Volumes/MBP/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
> com.apple.Boot.plist
> notifyd    62         root   14r      REG      14,4    8878040
> 142322 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/Extensions.mkext
> notifyd    62         root   15r      REG      14,4     272585
> 81233 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
> notifyd    62         root   16r      DIR      14,4       1088
> 2 /Volumes/MBP
> notifyd    62         root   17r      REG      14,4        490
> 81231 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
> notifyd    62         root   18r      REG      14,4        329
> 890920 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/CoreServices/.disk_label
> mds       159         root   19u      REG      14,4     151552
> 890912 /Volumes/MBP/.Spotlight-V100/store.db
> mds       159         root   20u      REG      14,4     151552
> 890913 /Volumes/MBP/.Spotlight-V100/.store.db
> mds       159         root   21u      REG      14,4          0
> 890914 /Volumes/MBP/.Spotlight-V100/.journalHistoryLog
> Finder    515        jerry   16r      DIR      14,4         68
> 894468 /Volumes/MBP/.Trashes/501
>
> If I examine other volumes I do NOT get the kextd and notifyd  files
> auto opened!
> (But the spotlight files are opened
>
> If I try to use the Finder to unmount /Volumes/MBP I get a failure
> because of open files.
>
> I can use "umount -fv /Volumes/MBP" to unmount the (backup) Volume
> but turning off
> the drive power gives a warning about the drive not being being
> properly put away.
> (and disk utility believes the drive is still mounted after the
> umount command).
>
> The mac book pro is the only computer who backup volume has this
> problem. All
> of the other computers can cleanly dismount their backup volumes.
>
> I am  using the latest everything software....
>
> Can anyone give me a clue as to why notifyd would want to open the
> above files for the
> mac book pro and not for two other macs I am backing up?
>
> Jerry
>

It took a complete reformat/repartition of the disk before the problem
would go away. ( Reformatting the backup *partition* did no good).

Jerry