Fix MacOS Mount Point

Question

I accidentally ended up renaming my non-OS partition originally named Sanu and mounted on /Volumes/Sanu. I then tried to rename it using get info but it didn't work. So I fired up terminal, did cd /Volumes and then ls was showing me Sanu as well as Sanu 1. I went into sudo mode, rm -rf Sanu and then mv "Sanu 1" Sanu.

So far all good.

2 problems:
1. I'm not able to access my files from finder within /Volumes/Sanu. Able to cd into folders but when I double-click on a file, it says file can't be found. However, I can access the same from terminal using cat or more.
2. Disk Utility reports that the Volume Sanu is mounted on /Volumes/Sanu 1

Disk Utility image

diskUtil list

$ diskUtil verifyVolume /Volumes/Sanu
Started file system verification on disk0s4 Sanu
Verifying file system
Using live mode
File system check exit code is 8
Error: -69845: File system verify or repair failed
Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

Should I try to unmount and remount? I haven't tried unmounting. Nor have i tried re-booting my mac.

Please see the screenshot of steps.txt. From the finder, I cannot open but you can see that I just edited and saved the file using textmate. Also, the disk free space at the bottom in finder is reported correctly.

Will appreciate some pointers on how I can fix it. My guess is changing mount path to /Volumes/Sanu should fix this

OS: Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 . Macbook Pro.

Answer 1

Unmount and remount it. I don't know of a safer way to change the mount point of a mounted volume.

For future reference: my recommendation if this happens again is to unmount the volume, then remove the conflicting directory (check to make sure there's nothing important in it before deleting!), then remount the volume.