Questions tagged [unmounting]
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How to clearly indicate a device is not mounted
Is it a good idea to add an empty file, say a file called NOT_MOUNTED, into mountpoint directory when the backup storage device is not mounted? Or will this be confusing? Is a symlink better, that ...
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How to unmount a drive while a container is running?
I have a Linux (6.6.x) machine with hotswap chassis that allows drives to be inserted and removed without downtime.
The system has the following drives:
/dev/sda (operating system)
/dev/sdb (...
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Weird result mounting a tmpfs as root in the directory tree
Using unshare -Umr I created a new user, mount namespaces where the calling process is moved into. Then via mount -t tmpfs tmpfs / I mounted a new tmpfs instance on the root / of the directory tree ...
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Can not change ISCSI disk mount point to other directory
Problem: I can not change ISCSI disk mount point to other directory.
Currently I have ISCSI disk mounted to /iscsi2
I would like to change it to /iscsi
I changed /iscsi2 to /iscsi in /etc/fstab, but ...
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mount: can't read superblock
Problem
Mount directory. sudo mkdir /mnt
sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt
sudo mount /dev/sdm1 /mnt, will work
Do some work..
sudo umount /dev/sdm1, will work
sudo mount /dev/sdm1 /mnt, will not work
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Device Notifier fails to safely remove USB drive Kubuntu
I have been using the command:
rsync -av $localdir $usbdir
to back up my local directories to NTSF formatted USB drives for years. I got a new system and now have a serious problem I am hoping ...
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Mounting directories on demand or until logged
As from object, I want to mount some directories (with binding) at login and possibly unmount them at logout.
At the beginning I tought about autofs, but it dynamically creates mount points, that's ok ...
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How to unmount an external hard drive in linux?
I have an external Toshiba 2TB hard drive with two partitions.
The relevant partition is of type BTRFS and mounted in my Parrot OS system.
I want to use it for backup purposes but I have a hard time ...
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zsh completion for umount: limit completion to one argument
when I use zsh completion for the umount command:
umount /mnt/t<TAB>
it completes the mounted filesystem /mnt/tmp.
But when I accidentally press tab too many times, it tries to be too helpful, ...
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What's using all the space on a seemingly empty partition?
OS: RHEL8
Filesystem: xfs
I'm guessing that some zombie process is holding the space, but I can't find it.
The problem is with /var/lib/pgsql/14, which df says is using 1.1TB of space:
$ sudo df -T -...
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How to shutdown service before systemd starts unmounting
I have a systemd service that uses After=local-fs.target to ensure that all mount points are established (if possible) before the service is started.
Not being too familiar with the systemd ...
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How can I make a secondary drive not periodically unmount
I have a secondary internal hard drive that once in a while will unmount and require the sudo password to mount (in the Dolphin file manager). How can I make so it does not unmount even upon a restart ...
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Mount but exclude one subfolder?
I have a Synology NAS in which I use the following command at NAS startup to create a symlink, which works fine:
mount --bind "/volume1/SourceFolder" "/volume1/SymlinkFolder"
Now I ...
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Unmount all nested directories under path
Let's consider these conditions:
There's multiple nested mounts with a lot of folders/files in /mnt:
sdb 8:16 0 300G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 256M 0 part /mnt/1/1
├─sdb2 8:18 0 199....
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Immediately after 'fusermount -u; umount' sporadically fails with Target is Busy
I've a script
pre-condition: lsof /dir1 clear
#/bin/bash
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fusermount -u /dir1/dir2 # unbind dir2
umount /dir1 # sporadically fails with 'Target is Busy'
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Why do I get ...
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