I wonder if blkid might be a bit more informative.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:03:14PM +0000, thyme after thyme wrote: > > Hello lovely debianizers, > > > > My Debian 10 machine has two physical disks, sda and sdb. The > > (encrypted) root filesystem is on sdb, meanwhile I?ve used > > fstab/crypttab to mount an (encrypted) partition on sda to > > /mnt/data01-hdd, where I?ve stored some stuff: > > > > user@hostname:/$ ls -gh /mnt/data01-hdd/ > > total 4.0K > > drwxr-xr-x 5 1007 4.0K Jan 1 23:02 backups > > Perhaps that stuff is just on the directory (using space > in the partition containing that directory... > > > However, when i do > > user@hostname:/$ sudo umount /mnt/data01-hdd > > > > umount complains thus: > > umount: /mnt/data01-hdd: not mounted. > > ...and the partition you think is mounted isn't, after all? > > You mount stuff on directories. Those are just plain old directories > and you can put stuff in them without having anything mounted. > > Cheers >
