umount question

mokku · 12-12-2007, 01:16 PM

HI,

I have tried to umount the file system and not working. There is not error messages, but if you look at using mount command, I can still seeit.

umount -f /home/xxxx

any help?

matthewg42 · 12-12-2007, 01:44 PM

What are the error messages? What is the filesystem type?

David1357 · 12-12-2007, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mokku

I have tried to umount the file system and not working. There is not error messages, but if you look at using mount command, I can still seeit.

umount -f /home/xxxx

Are you still in the "/home" tree? Do you need root priviliges (e.g. sudo umount ...)?

mokku · 12-13-2007, 09:04 AM

No error message at all. Only thing is that it isn't unmounting.

matthewg42 · 12-13-2007, 09:14 AM

What does it say if you omit the -f option?

matthewg42 · 12-13-2007, 09:14 AM

And what is the filesystem type?