Questions relating to the unmounting of the filesystem of media connected to the computer, whether that is done via software or manually by the user using the command-line.
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External HDD automatically get back after safe remove
This is weird!
I use udisks --detach /dev/sdb for safely remove my hard disk.
after 2 sec hard drive automatically mounted and nautilus window pops up.
This is output of udevadm monitor --udev.
UDEV ...
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Why does umount automatically remove the mount point of a drive that has been mounted with a file manager?
If I mount a drive using the file manager (I'm using PCManFM), the mount point is automatically removed when I run the umount command. However, if I mount by running mkdir and then mount, I have to ...
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Is it possible to unmount the /home partition?
I want to recover some files in my home directory using extundelete
http://sourceforge.net/projects/extundelete/
This tool needs to unmount the device before start to work, but I cannot umount ...
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curlftpfs mount disagrees with the fstab
I am working with curlftpfs to mount a remote FTP directory locally in Kubuntu 12.04 64-bit.
I have the following entry in my /etc/fstab:
curlftpfs#ftp_user:ftp_password@ftp_server /mnt/nimh fuse ...
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Can't format USB drive
I have a 4 Gig USB drive that I'd like to format.
I go to the Disk Utility, and try to format it, but it says that the device is busy. (This same error occurs no matter whether I tried to format the ...
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12.04 LTS reboot issue: fsck forced
after having upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 LTS I have the following problems at shutdown/reboot:
- the only way to reliably shot-down system is to log-out from all user and shut-down from login screen
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Do I need to umount USB drive before unplugging it when using udev?
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
I'm about to set up udev rules to automatically mount/umount an external USB drive when plugged or unplugged.
I'm concerned that by using udev to automatically unmount the ...
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When can I safely unplug an external drive on 12.10?
I have browsed several answers... but none seems to address my question.
As reported in bug #1067876 the options to "safely remove" an external drive is gone.
No problem! Umount is sufficient for ...
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mount/unmount issues while restarting/shutting down (not mounted / is busy)
When restarting or shutting down Ubuntu 12.10 the clean (graphic screen) process is interrupted by the following messages:
* Deactivating swap ... [ OK ]
* mount: /run/lock: not mounted [ fail ]
* ...
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umount: it seems [device] is mounted multiple times
i was finishing up a job with a compact flash when, trying to unmount it:
#> umount /dev/sda2
umount: it seems /dev/sda2 is mounted multiple times
Looking at what mount says:
#> mount | ...
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Mounting Samba share whenever it's available, unmounting when it's not
I am trying setup permanent samba share mounts. That's not too hard using these instructions. But, I want them to
Automatically remount whenever I join the network where these shares are available.
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Problems with mounting .ISO files
I'm using Precise, with GNOME. I've attempted to install some retro,
multi-cd games (KOTOR1) via .ISO images and WINE,
but I can't get the ISO's to mount correctly. First I tried GMountISO, which ...
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How to prevent hangs of Nautilus or Krusader when NAS is disconnected? [closed]
I tried to find a solution for this and I failed. I mount my NAS to my laptop, but when the connection is down the file-manager hang for a lot of time... Since this is a laptop, and it is on the go, ...
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how to umount /home in ssh?
I would like ssh, sudo su and umount /home and run diagnostic on it. Is there a runlevel I can used to close X and other process using /home while keeping network access? Or another way?
thanks
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How to stop umount all when I exit ssh session? [closed]
So when i'm logged into Lucid via ssh, and type exit to end the session, umount -a is run first by the system. I see the follow message before it logs me out:
umount: /home: device is busy.
(In ...
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Do I need to reboot my computer to read data from two SD cards?
I stuck an SD card in the card reader, imported my photos with Shotwell, deleted the photos from the card (again, with Shotwell), then right-clicked on the desktop icon and safely removed the card.
I ...
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Auto-mount in fstab no longer working until manually running 'sudo mount -a'
I have 3 SMB shared drives I need to connect to for work purposes. I had Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick and had all my drives loaded into fstab to be auto-mounted. Everything worked fine for a while but just ...
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Use Upstart to umount NFS at shutdown/restart?
I want to umount NFS drive at shutdown/restart. I connect to it with my laptop, and due to known bug, the system shuts down for ten minutes, instead for 20 seconds, when the NFS is mounted. I used to ...
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Why don't my external USB hard disks umount when I shutdown? [closed]
I have an usb external disk and I spin-down it through "hd-idle", a utility I found here: http://hd-idle.sourceforge.net.
I thought that when Ubuntu shutdown, it unmount all partitions, whether these ...
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Local file system not properly unmounted during shutdown
I have a file system with two HDDs and several partitions mounted separately locally.
/root, /home, /usr, /var, /local/share, /home/bernhard/fotos/bilder, /backup are on separate partitions and are ...
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How do you forcibly unmount a disk when you press the eject button on an optical drive?
When upgrading my hardware, I also upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10. On my previous system (with 10.04 and earlier). when I ejected a disk from the optical drive, the sub-folder in the /media directory was ...
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Why does Nautilus ask me to “… empty the trash before you unmount?”
I have a SATA hard-drive, formatted as ext4, which is detected by Nautilus each time I boot the computer.
I do need to click on it, in Places, to actually mount it. That's okay, I'm happy with ...
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How do I find out which process is preventing a umount?
When I do
sudo umount /media/KINGSTON
I got
umount: /media/KINGSTON: device is busy.
I close all the windows and make sure all shell are pointing to other directories. How can I find which ...
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Are pre-existing files in a mountpoint directory safe and uneffected?
I've noticed that pre-existing files in a "mountpoint" directory disappear when the mount command is applied... and then they re-appear when the directory is unmounted.
Are these files just on ...
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Unmounting several partitions at once
I have this portable hard disk with 4 partitions. When I need to safely remove the device I have to unmount each partition manually.
Is there a way I can unmount all at once? Or is it suffice to ...
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Disk Utility: What's the difference between “Unmount” and “Safe Removal”?
System > Administration > Disk Utility
What's the difference between "Unmount Volume" and "Safe Removal"? Say you insert a flash drive and open the Disk Utility UI, if you click on "Safe Removal" you ...
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Why do I need root privileges to umount a drive at the command line, but not in nautilus? How to change?
When I insert a thumb drive, media card, or USB hard drive, to unmount it via the command line, I need to use
sudo umount /media/the_device
But, I can unmount the device in a file manager like ...
