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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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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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
Partial/...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to check which "applications are keeping the volume busy" on Linux? [duplicate]
Sometimes after I read and write files in a USB connected to my linux desktop, then turn off all visible applications, wait for my USB to stop blinking, then attempt to eject the USB, I get a warning ...
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nfs unmount on shutdown
I have a laptop with debian that I am mainly using on my home wifi. To access some network disks, I have a few lines like these in /etc/fstab:
disk:/media/vol0 /home/disk0 nfs4 noauto,x-systemd....
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Can not unmount ssh connection after hibernation or momentary connection loss
I work on a mounted directory to a cluster through sshfs. However, sometimes my connection fails for a second and the mounting stops working. The problem is that I can not umount to be able to restart ...
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Cannot unmount drive, /var/lib/snapd/snap target is busy
I want to unmount my main drive so I can run fsck on it because dmesg says that I should. However, when I try to unmount the drive I get the following error:
Cannot unmount drive, /var/lib/snapd/snap ...
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failure to unmount /oldroot on shutdown; is this a problem?
At shutdown, Linux Mint 21.1 briefly flashes a warning that systemd couldn’t unmount /oldroot or /oldroot/sys because the device is busy. It still shuts down and I haven’t noticed anything else amiss. ...
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Slackware(64) 14.2 + Xephyr using chroot, umount partitions
This Exact Same Question i first time i do was ib -> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6366697#post6366697
i need improve my script :
For close the Xephyr window ...
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Unmount /boot after booting
For some highly secure bastion VMs I'll implement soon, I am considering to unmount /boot after booting - among other measures of course. Will be mounted only for updating kernel.
Testing this, no ...
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umount bash: warning: shell level (1000) too high, resetting to 1
I can mount drives and images, but I can't unmount them. I get 'shell level too high'. I expect this normally happens when a script calls itself.
Is there some script that is run by umount? I can't ...
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Prevent systemd from unmounting a partition mounted by a systemd service
I have a custom systemd service that automatically mounts some partitions under certains conditions. The service executes a shell script containing some mount commands. When I execute it directly, ...
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My server unmounted multiple drives and i don't know why?
so one of my servers was having issues this morning and when I went to investigate I found that the problem was that 4 of my drives seem to not be mounted anymore.
I am wondering if there may be a ...
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root filesystem not listed when executing mount
I'm running slackware 14.0 linux.
I was recently doing an open office document and sent emails out and then my internet was cutting out then after a bit I got hinted that my disk was full then I ...
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Use systemd to run script when usb drive is unmounted
I have a systemd service that calls a script when a USB drive is mounted. signal.service:
[Unit]
Description= Updater trigger
Requires=usb-drive.mount
After=usb-drive.mount
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/...
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Unable to unmount /mnt which was mounted from a script
I have a startup script which executes the following commands:
sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sda3 dm_crypt && sudo mount -t btrfs /dev/mapper/dm_crypt /mnt && cd /mnt && ls -la &...
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Unmounting a filesystem
I am trying to unmount a filesystem. The mount point of the filesystem is /one/two/three/four, and the name of the device file is /dev/sdb8. The command that I executed to unmount the filesystem ...
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How can I mount this disk image?
I'm trying to mount the Android nand image provided by Project Sandcastle (a project that can run Android 10 on an iPhone 7). I'm trying to mount this disk image so that I can edit the boot.img file ...
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Device in use, but not mounted
After plugging in a USB attached SATA SSD, fsck tells me that
this device is in use. But it is not mounted at all. What's
happening here? And how can I fsck this device?
Here are some information ...
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In my linux system umount gives error : error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
I am trying to unmount on /root and fails with the following error:
error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
I am trying to unmount both "log" and "abc"
df -h
Filesystem ...
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