General :: Cannot Figure Out How To "unmount" The Partition
Jun 30, 2011
I'm a total newbie in Linux, so patience I've managed to get Ubuntu up and running and love it so much I want to wipe out my Windows XP partition. (Right now I boot from startup and choose Ubuntu.)But when I open up Gparted it only shows me one "host" partition, a ntfs file system, and no reference to linux anywhere. More troubling, I cannot figure out how to "unmount" the partition. I've tried to boot from a CD unsucessfully, not sure why, but can't get the download to unzip, I think. Sorry, I said I'm a newbie.
My hosting company said: You need to unmount the partition with exec permissions, install memcached and re-mount it with no-exec as a security measure.
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[root@server tmp]# pecl install memcache WARNING: channel "pecl.php.net" has updated its protocols, use "pecl channel-update pecl.php.net" to update
After reboot I saw this communication:Quote:Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.and I can't shutdown the system normally because it stops (live cd too).Then I can't repair this partition because it is always busy.
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg. and I can't shutdown the system normally because it stops (live cd too). Then I can't repair this partition because it is always busy. I have on this partition important files.
I am unable to mount partition in ubuntu 10.04. Icons for different partitions are not coming within "Places". Every time I have to manually mount the partition or CD or DVD and manually unmount it. Seldom it shows the partition icons within Places>Computer. Then the partitions are getting mounted upon double clicking its partition-icon. But I fail to unmount the partition as it throws the error "media/partition_name is not in the fstab (and you are not root)."
When running linux (Lubuntu 10.04) my windows partition mounts automatically and can be opened and edited in file manager. Is there any way I can prevent it mounting when linux launches, prevent it from being mounted in linux, and (ideally) prevent it from being displayed/opened/edited at all from linux?(In case it's relevant:
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
When running the umount command like this as superuser: umount /dev/sda8. get the following message:umount: /home: device is busy.(In some cases useful info about processes that usethe device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
Is there a way to allow ordinary users to mount / unmount an ntfs partition?I don't want it to be mounted automatically - I can do that. I want it to be mount / unmountable by ordinary users (possibly in a particular group).
I've been running Linux for a year on our family computers (one desktop, one laptop and two netbooks). I've run into a problem with the encrypted ext4 partition (270GB) on a LaCie external hard drive which also has a NTFS partition (50GB) which is not encrypted . First two times I tried using the encrypted ext4 partition (from two different computers) it worked fine but now I can't access it at all. I can still access the NTFS partition.Encrypted external hard drive partition will unlock but won't mount (or unmount). The computer says "Opening 320GB Hard Disk" but after a minute says, "Unable to mount location. DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply"Disk utility (GUI for gparted I believe) states that the encrypted partition (/dev/sdb1) is unlocked and the underlying partition (/dev/dm-0) is not mounted but it has a "busy circle sign" on it that will not turn off. The NTFS partition on the same drive mounts and accesses normally.
But if I try to unmount the NTFS partition, it says: "Unable to stop drive. One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sdb"If I try to shut down the computer, it is unable to shut down because (I assume) it can't shut down that drive either. So I have to just turn off the computer.fdisk states that /dev/dm-0 doesn't have a valid partition table [full output attached]fsck suggests: "Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?"ps axuf shows some processes running on /dev/dm-0 but killinghem doesn't release the drive either. [full output attached]I checked /etc/blkid.tab (suggested in one vaguely related thread) and there's no actual file only a broken link pointing to /dev/.blkid.tab (which doesn't exist). I tried deleting this link and rebooting but that didn't change anything.when I finally gave up my data as lost, I tried to format the partition (using Disk Utility) and it refused saying, "One or more block devices are holding /dev/sdb"
i have an old system. I am total layman in reading motherboards and chipsets. is there anyway in any linux distro, which can tell me what kind of sound card i have so i can search and install it ? Basically i am concerned about finding what sound card i have in my system
Very simple question but I cant proceed without thWhat is this symbol 'and how do I type it? I tried google but dont really know to search for it.I'm trying to type in:Quote:
i have been trying to figure out wine and iso mounting for like 3 days i need a step by step guide on how to do this the things i need to mount are in /home/patches/downloads/diablo 2 full game with expansion and thats the folder in which the iso files are in and first i need to mount "diablo 2 install disk.iso" and im using linux helena or thats what it's called on the boot menu
Somebody deleted a folder from /opt, now how I to know who did it? should I login to every user from root and check the history? or there is better and easy solution?
I just downloaded a new app(vrs call logging) which doesn't work very well. I'm just trying to figure out how to properly remove the program. I've drilled down to the "uninstall.sh" but it will not run the uninstall program.
I�m kind of newbie trying to figure out a LAMP setup that will require as little maintenance as possible, and still be reasonable secure and maintained.After lots of googeling i think CentOs 5.x looks nice, the only problem is that i need PHP5.2.13 or later.If i add it from some 3 rd party repository it looks easy to install but what happens when there is security patches needed etc?I don�t like the idea of compiling it myself, I would probably get it running but there is always lots of do and donts that im unaware about to get it �right� not only �running�.
I think I can do it by brute force with a crontab entry for each of the 15 days at a time, but I'm not even sure I know how to do that.I'm trying to automate a process I do manually every day. That is, I execute the same command every day for 15 days running, manually changing the filename of the file by 1 each time, i.e. file.1.dmp, file.2.dmpThen after I reach the end of 15 days, I start again changing the filename being written back to the name of the first file I created 15 days ago. This overwrites the 15 files one a day for 15 days. That is, after I create the file.15.dmp, I (manually) change the name of the file being created back to file.1.dmp again.
I realize that this may not be descriptive enough to help me with getting an answer. I don't know how else to explain it. I'd be more than glad to fill in any details I've missed.I've thought about using a for loop, but it's been so long since I've had to do any programming I hesitate to go down that path. I've though about using the current date variable to change the filename, but how do I reset the script to start again after 15 days?The point of my exercise is to have a rolling backup/dump file for 15 days that I can restore from if needed.
I am just starting out in LINUX and I know the basic commands but I am a having a problem. I scoped the man pages but I can't get it. Maybe one of know... Can anyone tell me the cmd to figure out the system a file was created on? I just can't figure out this problem.
trying to do a multiboot, just for fun Now I installed Foresight Linux, which was not such a good.Foresight is based on rpath and uses Conary as update system Now Conary destroyed all other linux systems installed on the other partitions. Now I found that there is something such as hide and unmount but have read several pages full of it but still have no idea what is the difference between the two and more important, how to use this as most explanations seem to complicated How can I hide partitions for a booted linux operating system so it is unable to see it, use it or even mount it when it tries
When I insert an SD card in the reader, slackware creates a mount point and mounts my card volumes. On unmounting the volumes, the mount point vanishes. How do I achieve this manually?When I attempt to mount a volume using the mount command, the mount point folder must exist and the folder does not vanish on umount. Is there a way to create a mount point if it does not exist? and ensure that the folders vanish on umounting?
I have external hard drive which I used to connect via eSATA. I have edited fstab and it looks like that now: UUID=35C595D5738A319A /media/DATA ntfs auto,user,exec,suid,rw 0 0 The problem is that I can't unmount it as normal user, when do that, receive: Error unmounting: umount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: umount: only root can unmount UUID=35C595D5738A319A from /media/DATA
i don't understand this, why do you have to mount a usb or cd to use them? its such a hassle, in windows the usb/cd just works, but in linux you have to mount it, why? when ever i shutdown in linux, i am using ubuntu it says my drive didn't unmount on shutdown and it might damage my files?
I'm attempting to put together a 'nice' front-end for a set of image deployment scripts I've written. I'm running in to two different issues that I'm sure are related, but I can't quite figure out what the cause is. I am populating a variable with information from several text files to form my tag, string and default state for a dialog statement...
Code: for dir in /tmp/apps/* ; do APPMENU="$APPMENU $(echo $dir | sed 's//tmp/apps///') $(cat $dir/info)" An example of the contents of /tmp/apps/office/info: Code: 'Microsoft Office Enterprise' 'on' The result of echo $APPMENU:
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Does anyone have any idea what I should check for? Is there's a specific quoting method I need? In a Bash script I'm pulling quoted text from a file with cat then writing that same string (hopefully quoted!) to a variable. I have a single set of hard quotes (') in my text files presently.
I have a Red Had EL5 server. Free -m shows total mem: 3042 and used mem: 2903. However, when I run a top or ps, there's barely anything using any memory. how I can identify what is using all this memory?
i think this is not the right place for this post, but i can not figure out how to post a bug. i am talking about the permissions of: /tmp/orbit-root. please don't tell me now "don't" log in as root if you once login as user root from the login screen the permissions of /tmp/orbit-root are set to: drwx root but if log out the permissions are not set back / or the entry will be deleted. this will end for the next login as a normal user that you will get a bulp of error messages. easy to reproduce. this is not a feature - it's a bug.
