Re: umount hdb?

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:11:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:04:53AM -0500, Mike Dresser insinuated:
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > 
> > > orange:~# df -h
> > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda5              93M   93M     0 100% /
> > 
> > Free up some space on your / partition, and you should be closer to
> > your goals.
> 
> okay, that makes intuitive sense so i deleted a few megs, but now:
> 
> orange:~# umount /mnt/mikan
> umount: /mnt/mikan: not mounted
> orange:~# umount /mikan
> umount: /mikan: not found
> 
> orange:~# df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5                95139     95127         0 100% /
> /dev/hda1                29249      2094     25645   8% /boot
> /dev/hda6              6250540   1849556   4083468  32% /usr
> /dev/hda7             31915768  29030644   1263884  96% /home
> /dev/hda8               475860    415201     36091  93% /var
> /dev/hda9               475860        37    451255   1% /tmp
> 
> so it tells me it's not mounted ... but if i cd to /mnt/mikan, the
> contents are still there!
> 
> orange:/mnt/mikan# ls
> lost+found  nori
> 
> still confused ...

Try providing the device to umount:

 umount /dev/sdb2

You may also need the -n or -f options of umount.  Be careful!

Also, if /etc/mtab is stale or just plain screwed up, try /proc/mounts
("cat /proc/mounts").

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