How to force umount Fat32 mount point
Hi,
Somehow I have created a mount point for FAT32 space which I have no idea how to remove. This mount point was intended to be for my external HDD. But, as my external HDD turned to be none FAT32, I got the mount point without knowing on what partition it is based on. The new mount name is "ex_hdd" and is under /media and it is taking 19GB. However, I can not find it when I run the mount command: Quote:
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When you say it is taking up 19Gb, what do you mean? If there is nothing mounted on the mountpoint, then it's just an empty folder. What happens when you do
ls /media/ex_hdd There will be an entry for the mountpoint in the file /etc/fstab that you should be able to simply remove, however editing this file without knowing what you are doing can be dangerous, so learn a little about it first. (or if you are using a distro with a gui then you could use that to remove the mountpoint entry) edit: to find out which partitions are mounted use the command df -h (which actually shows diskspace free and used, but it also shows if a partition is mounted) |
Hi Superdog
Many thanks for your help. The command "ls /media/ex_hdd" shows nothing as there is nothing under ex_hdd. The 19GB figure is what I got from the properties of the mount/folder it says Free Space 19.0 GB I ran the command df -h and it gave the following Quote:
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It's just an empty folder then and could safely be deleted, however depending on how your system is set up it might get recreated at next boot time. If you have a gui config app for disk's I'd use that to remove the entry for it. If not you want to remove the line from your /etc/fstab that will look a bit like this
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Or if the entry doesn't exist, no worries and the folder can just be deleted. edit: The 19Gb thing is because it is just a folder that is on /, so oyu have 19G free on / Quote:
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From what you have said...better post the contents of /etc/fstab.
External hdds get automounted in your distro? You can delete that folder if it is not in /etc/fstab. |
Yeah it's prolly a better idea to post /etc/fstab
Some distros automount, mine doesn't - I still like to do things manually. |
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