Re: Unmount Problem

[Robert Baines <sqf globalnet co uk>]

Brian Clark <brianj ais ais-gwd com> wrote:

> Hi guys - whew!
> 
> If I mount my cdrom via:
> 
> [root localhost]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> 
> I can access it. If I want to change discs, the docs tell me to do this via:
> 
> [root localhost]# unmount /dev/cdrom
> 
> But when I try to unmount it, I get:
> 
> [root localhost]# unmount /dev/cdrom
> unmount: Command not found.
> 
> So, being very new to Linux, I issued:
> 
> [root localhost]# which mount
> /bin/mount
> 
> Ok, great. So I tried:
> 
> [root localhost]# which unmount
> unmount: Command not found.
> 
> Ok, hmm... So I go to:
> 
> [root localhost]# cd /bin
> [root localhost]# ls -alF u*
> (of course it lists all files beginning with u)
> and I see unmount*
> 
> So, my question is:
> If mount is in /bin and I can mount the cdrom. Why can't I unmount the
> cdrom when unmount in /bin also?
> This Linux thing is starting to make no sense whatsoever.

you are reading things that are not there. the command is umount not
unmount.
 
> Besides that, at one point I could access my Windows95 hard disk (hda) when
> I issued:
> 
> [root localhost]# mount /dev/hda /mnt/master
> [root localhost]# dir
> file1
> file2
> file3
> file4
> 
> (of course fileX being the actual file name of a windows directory)
> And it spat back my whole C:\ directory tree.
> 
> But now, if I try to do the same thing, all I see is:
> 
> [root localhost]# mount /dev/hda /mnt/master
> [root localhost]# dir 
> . ..
> [root localhost]#
> 
> What in the world is going on? I have read every man page and HOW-TO that I
> could find on the subject, and I have come up empty. They keep telling me
> to do what I have already done, and it's not working.

thats a bit strange. are you sure it's hda not hda1? why not be explicit
and say ls /mnt/master/ instead of dir.

robert