Greg, On Wednesday 17 January 2007 18:15, Greg Wallace wrote:
I want to try running a manual fsck on my main partition. I booted into runlevel 3 and tried "umount /dev/hda2" but got "device is busy".
That means either a process has a file on the mounted file system open or there is a process with a directory on that file system as its current working directory (this is the one that's easy to overlook).
I'm thinking that I should be trying to unmount the filesystem itself, not the device,
There's no real difference when it comes to using the "umount" command. It will look up a mount-point directory in /etc/mtab and translate it to the name of the device mounted there for you, so you can use either to accomplish an unmount operation.
but don't know how to figure out what that is (and I can't remember a command that would show the filesystem name associated with the device).
The "mount" command shows which device is mounted on which mount point (a directory).
Then again, maybe I'm way off base here. Anyway, I just need to be able to unmount the filesystem so I can run fsck on it. Can someone tell me what to enter to do the unmount?
% umount /dev/sd... % umount /dev/hd... % umount /media/... etc.
Thanks, Greg Wallace
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