Questions tagged [unmount]
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How to forceably unmount stuck network share in Mac OS X?
Not long ago my Xserve failed (power loss) while an iMac was working with files on a particular network share (called "Work Share"). This volume, "Work Share", is now stuck. It can't be seen in the ...
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How to unmount a VHD via command line in Windows 10
I need to unmount a VHD with a batch script in Windows 10. The only solution I found online was directed at Windows 7 and involved Diskpart. Are there any other native Windows command line tools ...
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lsof reports no files open on external volume but it still cannot be safely unmounted
I've searched around here on SX and other places but have not found an approach that gives me any traction on my issue. I've a volume (used by Time Machine as it happens) on an external Firewire ...
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Make windows unmount a specific partition when hibernating
Could I possibly trick windows in to thinking it's a flash drive? I dual boot, this would be really nice to have.
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How can I disable the 'unmount' option for my second internal harddisk in Ubuntu?
Edit: it seems that this is a known bug and that it is impossible.
How can I disable the 'unmount' option for my second internal harddisk in Ubuntu?
My system consists of a 128GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.
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Can't access external harddrive in OSX
For some reason i can't access my external HDD anymore. It's not showing up in Finder, although i can see it in the Volumes folder and in Disk Utility app.
When i access the HDD from terminal and try ...
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Why is it not possible to resize/move mounted (non logical) partitions at runtime?
While searching, why it is not possible to resize a mounted partition I mostly found answers like this:
It is filesystem and partition dependant, different flesystems and
partitions will use ...
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Can't go into Google Drive directory mounted with rclone: "Transport endpoint is not connected"
ls -l shows:
ls: cannot access 'gdrive-root': Transport endpoint is not connected
total 42M
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gdrive-root
Trying to re-mount with the command used ...
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How to remove shortcuts of drives from desktop without unmounting it in Ubuntu?
I have a question about unmounting the drives in Linux.
Whenever I open any drives in system its shortcut/image will be shown in the desktop. To remove that, I need to right-click on it and select ...
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Windows XP getting USB on off sounds repeatedly?
My laptop has gotten into a mode whereby it makes the USB mount and unmount sound repeatedly in a random fashion. This is the two tone ascending pitch for mount and descending pitch for unmount. The ...
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TrueCrypt Command Line: Dismount by Volume Name?
Considering the command: TrueCrypt.exe /q /e /v "dummy.tc"
1: Is there a way to dismount dummy.tc from the command line WITHOUT knowing its drive letter?
2: Is there a way to discover, after this ...
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Can a USB be removed with out un-mounting during de-fragmentation
I have a USB flash drive formatted to fat32 and I have a batch file to defragment it. Would there be any damage done to the flash drive or it's files if I was to unplug it from the USB port while it ...
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How can a computer shut down if a mount/service etc. cannot be unmounted?
Sometimes a hard reboot is required when a computer gets itself into a bad state, in any operating system. In linux say, if a drive cannot be unmounted, even by force, how does a shutdown command ...
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Mac OSX: restart required after removing auto mount
By default /home directory is protected in mac osx and you need to remove the auto mount by editing the file /etc/auto_master and replace the following line
/home auto_home -...
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/proc/pid/mountinf file's root column meaning
What is the meaning of the root column in /proc/pid/mountinfo file?
As per the manual, it says
(4) root: the pathname of the directory in the filesystem which forms the root of this mount.
It is ...
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How to prevent unmounted, spun down HDDs from spontaneously spinning up in Windows 10?
I spin down and unmount two of my HDDs in Windows 10 x64 to keep them silent. I mount and use them for backups only. Once unmounted they obviously have no longer drive letters assigned.
For a reason ...
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How to safely distantly remove a usb hard drive in Debian using terminal
I'm connected via ssh to a Debian computer. What I need to to do is to safely remove the external usb storage device.
I have found this answer to a comparable question. One of the recommendations is ...
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OverlayFs merge on unmount
For performance reasons I would like to stack tmpfs on top of the working directory of some programs. However, the program needs to access data previously saved in the "real" working directory, ...
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Can't eject an external hard drive
I was attempting to backup my system with Time Machine and for whatever reason a passerby disrupted the hard drive wire and the backup failed due to an 'improper ejection'. Now, after attempting to ...
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Can't load or repair Windows
I can't run my Windows 7 64bit.
I tried:
System repair – hangs at the repair screen
Start normally – hangs at the Starting Windows screen
Start in safe mode – hangs at the classpnp.sys file
Start in ...
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Receive error msg: the parameter is incorrect
i receive this error msg when i use this batch file to mount and unmount a drive in windows 10.
mounting:
@echo off
REM Be sure to change this to the drive letter you want to mount the drive to!
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fusermount prepends /home to path when resource is busy
Problem:
I created a bash script for SSHFS mount/unmount using:
1| dir=$(mktemp -d)
2| sshfs user@server $dir
3| cd $dir
4| bash
5| fusermount -u $dir
6| rmdir $dir
Once these lines are ...
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A USB drive appears to be unmounting randomly. How do I troubleshoot this?
I have a USB drive holding files for a Plex server. The mounted folder is also shared on my home network using Samba.
Nothing has changed recently in either Samba or Plex's config.
Lately, the drive ...
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Unable to take an inactive disk offline (unmount)
My PC has two disks. One for Ubuntu and and the other for Windows 7/10.
In Windows 7, when I try to take a Ubuntu disk offline it won't let me. I was able to do this when I installed Windows 10.
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"Disconnected" phantom B: drive causing problems
On one of our servers, a drive mapping has suddenly appeared (across all users). The drive mapping is invalid, and is causing spurious error and warning messages. It is a mount to "B:" (which is ...
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UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME error on laptop with no CD drive
I am getting an UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME error on my Samsung laptop which does not have a CD-ROM drive. I tried to merge the C and D partitions to get more space, but since then the laptop does not ...
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Unmount iscsi volume from bash script
Plan: I want to unmount an iscsi volume on my OS X Desktop in a script only if it's mounted. So far, I've identified the disk as disk4s2 with:
diskutil list | grep 'V-Movies' | rev | cut -c1-7 | rev....
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Why does udisksctl command on my machine say that power-off is not a valid option?
I recently switched to CentOS 7. I was trying to safely remove my backup drive. The drive unmounts, but the LED on it, stays on.
I know how a disk can be safely removed using command line as answered ...
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Cannot unmount/remove 'Linux' drive from Windows 10
System: Windows 10, up to date
I have a mysterious drive/folder which appears mounted on Windows 10, called simply 'Linux', which I cannot unmount or otherwise get rid of. It's empty, and there do not ...
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Encfs unmounted drive is still visible
So I used this:
encfs ~/secret ~/plaintext
Then I wrote some text files to plaintext directory. Then I unmounted by doing this:
fusermount -u ~/plaintext
Yet when I go to the /secret/ directory I ...
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Mount anywhere and tell me about it
I want to write a script that does the following:
Mount a device (always the same one)
Take a peek at a file at the device and tell me something about it
Unmount the device again.
This is fairly ...
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script to disallow mounting of certain idVendor
I'm trying to write a script to disallow mounting of certain usb thumb drive's brand like silicon-power my thought was to use tail -f /var/log/messages and grep it to idVendor and blocking it upon ...
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Mounting an old drive with a rescue partition causes unmount/mount cycle
I have a 2.5 SATA drive from an old laptop that ran Windows Vista. In addition to having the main partition with the OS, it has a "Rescue" partition on it.
I put the old drive into an external ...
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Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted?
Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted? I am using macOS 14.3.1.
The noise is very similar to, or the same as, that the drive makes when writing ...
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TERM environment variable not set when running shell script using automator (MAC)
In using mac sonoma. I tried to run my shell script via Automator app. There's a 'diskutil umount' command in the script that will give me this error :
TERM environment variable not set.
Usage: ...
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USB Flash Drive Mounting and Unmounting Issues in linux
I'm seeking assistance as I delve into learning the Linux file system, and I've encountered a specific issue regarding the mounting and unmounting of a pendrive. Upon initially inserting the pendrive ...
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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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Mount and unmount a drive for backup
In windows I want to create backups (using robocopy) on my internal hard drive. However, I want to keep the hard drive mounted only during backups and unmount it rest of the time. The reason is ...
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After removing lxc device, still managed to access device from its boundary directory
I am using Lxd container for my sd card access in Linux based device.
i mounted sd card with following commands
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash/sdcard.
lxc config device add dhaneesh2 sda disk path=/mnt/...
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Can't sudo unmount or remove a temp folder in macOS catalina, how to get rid of it?
Using macOS Catalina 10.15.6. I have a folder ~/temp/foobar and when I do ls -al it shows these file flags:
drwx------
For some reason I cannot get rid of the folder. So far I have tried this:
$ ...
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.dmg keeps re-mounting
I am facing a problem that a drive keeps being mounted on my mac.
It began when I have attempted to install software packages from my car cam manufacturer. It created a mounted drive for installing ...
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Volume group still active after disabling with vgchange?
I noticed that sometimes vgchange -a n [vgname] seems to not close the volume group properly. This happens most often, when I actually prepare a new system and I do not know what is causing this. ...
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How to unmount a blocked usb external HDD in Windows 10?
I have an external HDD connected to my PC using Windows 10, which is used to a daily backup using Acronis True Image 2019.
Many times after the backup is finished, I can't dismount it.
Even removing ...
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Why file content is not remain after unmount a drive in linux?
I wrote a script on bashrc.cmd from my windows 10 to activate my virtual environment automatically. I pointed the path of bashrc.cmd into AutoRun according to this post.
bashrc.cmd
@echo off
CD dev-...
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How to prevent partitions from being mounted automatically in Linux(Mint)?
I have a Linux(Mint)/Windows dual boot PC.
Checked /etc/fstab and their are no entries for the Windows and System Reserved partition.
Don't really understand how it's happening.
Any other place I ...
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Windows 7: Can we keep internal HDD from being accessed by ransomwares with "disable" or "unmount"?
I'm trying to find an alternative way to protect my daily backup-disk from malware, while the HDD is still connecting to a SATA port on the motherboard.
(This is temporally. I can't afford a portable ...
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Windows-11: External drive is double-mounted; unable to unmount
It's been years since I bookmarked this site and had to use it.
I posted this question yesterday on StackOverflow and "General Grievance" (related to Kernel Panic?) suggested I post here as ...
