[KLUG Members] mounted or not?

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Thu Jun 12 21:17:38 EDT 2008


Eric Beversluis wrote:
> OK__what's the deal?
>
> The mount command says /media/NTSF Volume and /media/FAT32 Volume are
> mounted; umount returns that they are not mounted, according to mtab.
> Furthermore, I am able to open files in those volumes.
>
> ??? So how do I unmount them?
>
> eric at lenovo-1:/media$ mount
> /dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> <snip>
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/FAT32 VOLUM type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077)
> /dev/sdb3 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> /dev/sdb2 on /media/NTFS Volume type ntfs
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=222,utf8)
>
> eric at lenovo-1:/media$ umount NTFS Volume
> umount: NTFS is not mounted (according to mtab)
> eric at lenovo-1:/media$ umount /media/FAT32 VOLUM
> umount: /media/FAT32 is not mounted (according to mtab)
> eric at lenovo-1:/media$ 
>   
Looks like your mount points have spaces in their names.  You need to 
put quotes around their names in the umount command.

    -Dan Sikorski


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