[GLLUG] Re: Mounting a Drive
Charles Tower
c.e.tower at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 09:17:56 EST 2007
umount is for UNmounting drives, Jordan, so that's why it doesn't work
for you. You want to use the mount command, but you don't want to use
the -a option because your fstab is not right for the drive you're
trying to mount. /dev/hda3 is NOT a swap partition, so I would just
delete that line in fstab, or perhaps modify it for /dev/hda2.
See the man page for mount. Assuming the filesystem on /dev/hda3 is
ext3 and that /media/ext3 exists, here's how you would mount that device
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /media/hda3
If you do not know the filesystem, try it without the -t option. The
man page says it will try to determine the filesystem itself, but I've
never tried that.
If you want to mount that drive automatically every time (even though it
appears to be a removable or external drive), you could add it to fstab.
It would look a little different than the other entries you have in it
now, so that would be a new question.
Chick
Jordan Robison wrote:
> I am trying to get the top drive to mount( 160.0 GB)
> This is what my fstab looks like
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hdb5 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hda /media/share vfat defaults,umask=0000 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /media/hda3 swap sw 0 0
>
> when I type in sudo umount -a I get this:
> umount: /dev: device is busy
> umount: /var/run: device is busy
> umount: /: device is busy
>
> Can anyone help me out? I don't want to loose any information from this
> drive at all! It is very important to me that everything stays on this
> drive.
>
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