Mount point changed!?

[Whitehill]

I have a Mac with two internal disks. Both came formatted with the silly case preserving but not case sensitive method. I decided to change the non-boot disk. So I backed it up and reformatted it. When it mounted, it looked OK on the desktop, but the underlying mount point had changed! It used to be

/Volumes/Server2​

now it's

/Volumes/Server2_1​

I unmounted and tried remounting by hand

# mount /dev/disk1s3 /Volumes/Server2
/dev/disk1s3 on /Volumes/Server2: Incorrect super block.​

How can I get back to the old mount point so my scripts will work again?

 

[Whitehill]

Nevermind. I stumbled on the answer.

• Unmount the volume.
• Delete the directory /Volumes/Server2_1
• Remount the volume.

Presto! I now have /Volumes/Server2. I wonder what I did to cause this.

 

[Mikuro]

This happens to me whenever I unplug a drive before OS X finishes unmounting it (sometimes the OS holds onto it for a while after the icon disappears, for some reason). Sometimes I can't even delete the "phantom" entry without rebooting.

Also, a lot of apps will recreate a plain ol' folder in /Volumes if the disk it's looking to save the file in isn't mounted. That's really annoying.