On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 360 Gb external drive. When I back up my system (that has 3 > linux distros installed) with Clonezilla, the drive appears mounted as 7 > separate disks (/media/disk, /media/disk-1 thru /media/disk-6). That in > itself is weird but isn't the main problem. The real hangup is that I > can't unmount any of them. If I run umount as root on them the icon > will disappear from the desktop but /etc/mtab and "ls /media" both show > them all as still mounted. > > Can anyone give me a hint?
I have a 160GB external USB drive with two partitions. On OpenSUSE 10.3 and Kubuntu 8.04 it gets mounted as /media/disk and /media/disk-1. I usually interact with it from the GUI. Each distro behaves a bit differently. OpenSUSE When I unmount one of them the file system is closed but a dialog pops up that it cannot eject the device. But that partition is not mounted anymore. Then when I unmount the other partition both icons go away and I unplug it. Kubuntu When I unmount one of them the file system is closed and there is no dialog. The icon remains. Then I unmount the other and it's icon still remains. If I click the icon to get the menu, the "Mount" option is visible, indicating to me that it is not mounted. When I unplug the drive, the icons disappear. Admittedly I have not looked at mtab during these steps to see when "true" unmounting has occurred. I am trusting the icons and menus to tell me it's safe to unplug. So maybe my experience doesn't help you much. I have not had disk corruption following the above sequences. Maybe the file system really is unmounted, depending on how Clonezilla handles the unmount event and subsequent configuration state updates. Alan --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
