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 Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
