How to remove unused mount points?

Tsuroerusu · 07-16-2004, 06:49 AM

I have an external USB harddisk, when I have it in the mount point /mnt/removeable is created, but when I turn off the drive the mount point remains, how do I remove those unused mount points (Hate to have those freaking icons on my desktop) when their drives are removed?

. : B : . · 07-16-2004, 10:44 AM

umount /mnt/removeable before you turn it off. (NOT uNmount! No "n")

Tsuroerusu · 07-16-2004, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by . : B : .
umount /mnt/removeable before you turn it off. (NOT uNmount! No "n")

Didn't work, the mount points remained in /mnt/ as empty folders, and the shourcuts at the desktop remained.

J.W. · 07-16-2004, 05:22 PM

You could simply delete the directory

Code:

rmdir /mnt/removeable

However, to be honest I'm not sure there's a huge amount of value in doing this if it's just going to get created again when you plug the USB device back in. Personally I would just leave it alone, as it doesn't really do any harm just sitting there, plus it will already exist the next time you want to use the USB drive. Just my 2 cents -- J.W.

. : B : . · 07-16-2004, 07:44 PM

The mount points in /mnt are supposed to stay there. The icons should disappear though. Have you remounted it and then umounted? If not, try that. Until you umount the system thinks it's still hooked up and keeps the icon for you.

J.W. · 07-16-2004, 08:34 PM

.:B:. has a good point - my response was with respect to the thread title. I'll repeat though that if you are going to be using the USB device fairly often, I think it would be better to just leave things the way they are. -- J.W.