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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 GUI, you can only detect it using the Terminal.…
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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 available that can do the job?
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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 drive. When the drive is connected, it has 3…
fairflow
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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. The reason I want to disable this button is to…
Henry van Megen
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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 to list the files via ls I get permission denied.…
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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 initially also throws the same error: $ rclone…
toraritte
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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 different methods. - by Javier Rivera First you have to…
Senkaku
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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 unmount. Then only that shortcut disappears. This…
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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 command has executed, what drive letter dummy.tc…
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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 frequency is intermittent, but the occurrence is…
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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 not very clear from the documentation. Can someone…
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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 unknown to me those unmounted, spun down HDDs…
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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 just to eject or unmount by doing sudo eject…
Jürgen K.
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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 was defragmenting. Thanks in advance.
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