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Old 08-26-2010
unmount the partition
Dear all,
I have a two hard drive.On the second (/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2) hard drive i have two partitions. The /dev/sdb2 has been mounted on the /home2 directory.I want to unmount that /dev/sdb2.I have no idea to how to do it.Can anybody give me the details about that?.

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Prakashkumar.S
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Old 08-26-2010
Hi.

(assuming you have privileges) Did you try:

Code:
umount /dev/sdb2

or

Code:
umount /home2

If you receive an error (like device busy) you can use lsof or fuser to see what processes are accessing the mount point.

If you don't want it to be mounted again at the next reboot, remove it from, or comment it out in, /etc/fstab or change it's options to prevent it. (that's OS-specific - what is your OS?)
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some reading can shed light ... UNIX / Linux umount Command Examples
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