Questions relating to the unmounting of the filesystem of media connected to the computer, whether that is done via software or manually by the user using the command-line.
Questions tagged [umount]
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How do I find out which process is preventing a umount?
When I do
sudo umount /media/KINGSTON
I got
umount: /media/KINGSTON: device is busy.
I close all the windows and make sure all shell are pointing to other directories. How can I find which process is preventing the umount?
Guillaume Coté
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Partition cannot be unmounted "Volume is busy" on Ubuntu 18.04.1 . Offending process - jbd2/sdb4
With Ubuntu 18.04.1 on a fresh install, I sometimes cannot unmount my data backup partition. I was dd'ing a Linux iso from the partition /dev/sdb4 to a USB drive. Later, I exited the terminal, and tried to unmount from the nautilus unmount option.…
Confguy2016
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Why does umount automatically remove the mount point of a drive that has been mounted with a file manager?
If I mount a drive using the file manager (I'm using PCManFM), the mount point is automatically removed when I run the umount command. However, if I mount by running mkdir and then mount, I have to manually remove the mount point after I have run…
robingrindrod
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Can't umount a device
I was trying to connect my computer with box.com for have the cloud disk in my computer, I was following this tutorial.
The problem is, I did something wrong and now the device doesn't work and I can't umount it.
Now appears something like…
Pablo MorPal
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Can't unmount /dev/sda2
First I tried Gparted but couldn't unmount it
when I tried the terminal command sudo umount /dev/sda2
I got this message:
umount: /: target is busy
.
lsblk -f /dev/sda gives this:
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL…
Nada
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