Jza Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Hey people, I got an iomega 80GB external harddrive. My issue has to do with the mounting of the HD. I sometimes get stucked since when it started the mounting is under a normal user, however I cant see to unmount it. user> umount /mnt/iomega/ -- User doesn't have the permission to unmount user > su root > umount /mnt/iomega/ -- Can't unmount, device is busy Questions: - How can I unmount the HD? - How can I improve the speed of the transfer? The only solution I have right now (which is no solution at all) is configure the mtab so they get the new options and...gulp... reboot :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 You cant unmount a partition if there is a: Command line running in that directory Window open in the directory Anything accessing the directory If you want to remount a partition with extra parameters or options, do: mount /mnt/iomega -o remount,option,option Don't edit your mtab file, it only stores information about the currently mounted partitions. It cannot change options. If you want to change options, edit them in your /etc/fstab and then do a mount /mnt/iomega -o remount iphitus iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 jza: what version of Mandrake are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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