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  • This is absolutely not an issue of mounting. You're not deleting anything on the actual external drive since you've just unmounted your drive. You are simply running rm on an empty/nonexisting path (since nothing is mounted at /media/sami/OS anymore) but it fails silently since you're using the -f switch. This consequently accomplishes absolutely nothing. You definitely should read about what mounting is. Commented Aug 8, 2023 at 17:41