umount
Friends,
my os is OpenSuse 11.3 I have been hanging NTFS formated USB drives. I have done this a lot lately . I will right click and do a safe remove and - it reponds with unmounted but cannot eject. that was all normal. But today i went to hang one and it complained that it could not. so i did a force mount , according to the diag suggestion that popped up. i did sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/ss-020 -o force that mounted - i did what i needed to do and all seemed well ( let us call this drive 2 ) I should have smelled a rat right there - but thought it could be a complaint about the New drive ( drive 2 ) - BUT! I am not 'exactly' certain how this happened but....i have an oddity in that I have a drive listed in the sysinfo: as Device Node: /dev/sdb1 and it is unmounted ( not physically around ) Maybe - i error and did not do a safe remove on the drive i mounted yesterday ( lets call this drive 1 ) so maybe i did not do a safe remove ... just turned off , unplugged or something. >>....stupid....<< so - i have this dab of crap sitting there -- that isn't there..... how do i 'clean' this? i have done: ingex@atkov:~> sudo umount /dev/sdc1 umount: /dev/sdc1: not mounted ingex@atkov:~> sudo umount /dev/sdb1 umount: /dev/sdb1: not mounted that does not work because - indeed - the drives are Not mounted. but i have a "ghost" listing of 'drive 1" /dev/sdb1 i persists after a reStart. ( that suprises me ) agin : there are no usb drives currently attched. and yet Konqueror sees this 'shadow' . of course i cannot get into the drive.. it is indeed unmounted and ....not there. thanks! z |
/dev/sdX are the devices; You can not unmount them. When you use umount, you need to point to the directory where you mounted the device. Take your command for instance:
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sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/ss-020 -o force Code:
umount /media/ss-020 Josh |
nope
no - wish it helped but does not.
cause .. it is unmounted as a volume but a /dev/sdb1 is seen It is seen in the Konqueror sysinfo disk information 484G Media ext3 443.8 GB 421.0 GB media:/sdb1 ============ if i try to mount ( again it is NOT physically there ) Error opening '/dev/sdb1': Permission denied Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Permission denied Please check '/dev/sdb1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions, and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged ================ |
oppps
I suppose here is where i say that - sorry
i have been working hard and have confused myself it seems what is realllly happening is this is a dual boot machine ( i knew that , i built it ) and the mystery ntfs sdb1 ... well that is the win c partition. opps! so zero to do with the silly ntfs usb drives i have been wading through. that also means that the "problem' that the '2nd' drive had -- the reason i had to do a force mount ( sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/ss-020 -o force ) was because it was goofy. or maybe itz just me. |
Ok, so did you get it fixed, or is it still messed up?
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I think i am OK,
i suppose i will see how the Next ntfs usb drive behaves.. it is intresting that i had to do a sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /media/ss-020 -o force I am now thinking that had less to do with 'my system' and more to do with -that drive; or....maybe it was just one of those things. thanks |
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Josh |
as time permits I will - get back on that system with a diffrent ntfs usb drive and see if it mounts happily without a force.
thanks again |
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