ah yeah I was mounting the drive I was just showing what happened when I did a umount -a. When I did a mount -a it also said that the drive was busy.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Charles Tower</b> <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
umount is for UNmounting drives, Jordan, so that's why it doesn't work<br>for you. You want to use the mount command, but you don't want to use<br>the -a option because your fstab is not right for the drive you're
<br>trying to mount. /dev/hda3 is NOT a swap partition, so I would just<br>delete that line in fstab, or perhaps modify it for /dev/hda2.<br><br>See the man page for mount. Assuming the filesystem on /dev/hda3 is<br>ext3 and that /media/ext3 exists, here's how you would mount that device
<br><br> sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /media/hda3<br><br>If you do not know the filesystem, try it without the -t option. The<br>man page says it will try to determine the filesystem itself, but I've<br>never tried that.
<br><br>If you want to mount that drive automatically every time (even though it<br>appears to be a removable or external drive), you could add it to fstab.<br> It would look a little different than the other entries you have in it
<br>now, so that would be a new question.<br><br> Chick<br><br><br>Jordan Robison wrote:<br>> I am trying to get the top drive to mount( 160.0 GB)<br>> This is what my fstab looks like
<br>><br>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.<br>> #<br>> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass><br>> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
<br>> /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1<br>> /dev/hdb5 none swap sw 0 0<br>> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
<br>> /dev/hda /media/share vfat defaults,umask=0000 0 0<br>> /dev/hda3 /media/hda3 swap sw 0 0<br>><br>> when I type in sudo umount -a I get this:<br>> umount: /dev: device is busy
<br>> umount: /var/run: device is busy<br>> umount: /: device is busy<br>><br>> Can anyone help me out? I don't want to loose any information from this<br>> drive at all! It is very important to me that everything stays on this
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