On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:11:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:04:53AM -0500, Mike Dresser insinuated:
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> >
> > > orange:~# df -h
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda5 93M 93M 0 100% /
> >
> > Free up some space on your / partition, and you should be closer to
> > your goals.
>
> okay, that makes intuitive sense so i deleted a few megs, but now:
>
> orange:~# umount /mnt/mikan
> umount: /mnt/mikan: not mounted
> orange:~# umount /mikan
> umount: /mikan: not found
>
> orange:~# df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 95139 95127 0 100% /
> /dev/hda1 29249 2094 25645 8% /boot
> /dev/hda6 6250540 1849556 4083468 32% /usr
> /dev/hda7 31915768 29030644 1263884 96% /home
> /dev/hda8 475860 415201 36091 93% /var
> /dev/hda9 475860 37 451255 1% /tmp
>
> so it tells me it's not mounted ... but if i cd to /mnt/mikan, the
> contents are still there!
>
> orange:/mnt/mikan# ls
> lost+found nori
>
> still confused ...
Try providing the device to umount:
umount /dev/sdb2
You may also need the -n or -f options of umount. Be careful!
Also, if /etc/mtab is stale or just plain screwed up, try /proc/mounts
("cat /proc/mounts").
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