[sclug] pmount and umount in kubuntu

[Alex Butcher]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, John Stumbles wrote:

> How are you supposed to mount and unmount something like a CF card in 
> [k]ubuntu (and Debian generally, I guess). I get an icon on the desktop or in 
> konqueror's media:/ view, which I can use to mount and 'safely remove' the 
> device, but I want to do it from the command line or in a script (i.e. 
> properly :-)
>
> I can pmount the device OK:
>
> john at stonehenge:~/pix$ pmount /dev/sda1
> john at stonehenge:~/pix$ mount
> ...
> /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type vfat 
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
>
> But umount doesn't work:
>
> john at stonehenge:~/pix$ umount /dev/sda1
> umount: /dev/sda1 is not in the fstab (and you are not root)

You don't umount the blockdev, but the mountpoint. Try

 	umount /media/sda1

Best Regards,
Alex.
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