do I need to unmount a hard drive?

d'oh! · 02-11-2004, 01:09 AM

I added a new hard drive to my box, mounted it, etc but now want to remove it. There doesn't seem to be an unmount option... can just remove it from my fstab so the system won't be confused looking for it? There's no info on it - I had only formatted it using fdisk. thanks!

synapse · 02-11-2004, 01:42 AM

Hi

try umount /mnt/... etc for unmounting a device.
Rather than deleting the line in fstab place a # in front of the offending line, this will cause the line to be ignored .

Hope it helps
cheers

d'oh! · 02-11-2004, 11:56 AM

Thanks much! No wonder 'man unmount' wasn't giving me anything!

bnice · 02-11-2004, 03:28 PM

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Originally posted by d'oh!
Thanks much! No wonder 'man unmount' wasn't giving me anything!

that's `umount`