Questions tagged [unmount]
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Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted?
Why does my external USB hard drive (bus powered) keep making noise long after it's unmounted? I am using macOS 14.3.1.
The noise is very similar to, or the same as, that the drive makes when writing ...
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TERM environment variable not set when running shell script using automator (MAC)
In using mac sonoma. I tried to run my shell script via Automator app. There's a 'diskutil umount' command in the script that will give me this error :
TERM environment variable not set.
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USB Flash Drive Mounting and Unmounting Issues in linux
I'm seeking assistance as I delve into learning the Linux file system, and I've encountered a specific issue regarding the mounting and unmounting of a pendrive. Upon initially inserting the pendrive ...
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Mount but exclude one subfolder?
I have a Synology NAS in which I use the following command at NAS startup to create a symlink, which works fine:
mount --bind "/volume1/SourceFolder" "/volume1/SymlinkFolder"
Now I ...
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Cannot unmount/remove 'Linux' drive from Windows 10
System: Windows 10, up to date
I have a mysterious drive/folder which appears mounted on Windows 10, called simply 'Linux', which I cannot unmount or otherwise get rid of. It's empty, and there do not ...
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Windows-11: External drive is double-mounted; unable to unmount
It's been years since I bookmarked this site and had to use it.
I posted this question yesterday on StackOverflow and "General Grievance" (related to Kernel Panic?) suggested I post here as ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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After removing lxc device, still managed to access device from its boundary directory
I am using Lxd container for my sd card access in Linux based device.
i mounted sd card with following commands
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash/sdcard.
lxc config device add dhaneesh2 sda disk path=/mnt/...
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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 ...
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Can't sudo unmount or remove a temp folder in macOS catalina, how to get rid of it?
Using macOS Catalina 10.15.6. I have a folder ~/temp/foobar and when I do ls -al it shows these file flags:
drwx------
For some reason I cannot get rid of the folder. So far I have tried this:
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.dmg keeps re-mounting
I am facing a problem that a drive keeps being mounted on my mac.
It began when I have attempted to install software packages from my car cam manufacturer. It created a mounted drive for installing ...
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Receive error msg: the parameter is incorrect
i receive this error msg when i use this batch file to mount and unmount a drive in windows 10.
mounting:
@echo off
REM Be sure to change this to the drive letter you want to mount the drive to!
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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 ...
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fusermount prepends /home to path when resource is busy
Problem:
I created a bash script for SSHFS mount/unmount using:
1| dir=$(mktemp -d)
2| sshfs user@server $dir
3| cd $dir
4| bash
5| fusermount -u $dir
6| rmdir $dir
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