Wednesday, 7 January 2009

unmount: command not found

Just a short and simple note here to new Ubuntu users...
When I first started using Ubuntu, this error message that I received drove me crazy. I could not understand why it would not work for. I was running a command like: sudo unmount /dev/sda3. Then I realized that I had been totally stupid, and had miss read it. The command should have been: sudo umount /dev/sda3 umount, not unmount.

I know this is a pretty dumb post for the more experienced Ubuntu users out there, but I just remembered how much it annoyed when when I first started. If you are like me, and still type unmount, and remember it's not, you could always set up an alias for it. View this post to see how you would do this: http://jamsubuntu.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-create-your-own-aliases.html
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46 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 June 2009 at 02:57

    Thanks. You saved my day!

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  2. Anonymous31 August 2009 at 19:31

    That's it! I have to read it multiple times to get the typo difference... it's not stupid it's just crazy!

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  3. Anonymous10 September 2009 at 02:22

    Thank you so much!

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  4. Unknown15 December 2009 at 20:57

    YES! What an unintuitive command, was driving me nuts.

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  5. Anonymous31 December 2009 at 17:37

    Thanks, I was about to start smashing things.

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  6. Johnathon Wright18 February 2010 at 20:30

    You're the man.

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  7. Mr Mark Janos27 July 2010 at 13:44

    Thanks so much for this sanity check... umount drove me crazy as well

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  8. Pedro Sandoval20 February 2011 at 08:06

    Thanks!

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  9. Grant Vanstaden19 March 2011 at 13:19

    Thank you. I had this exact problem.

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  10. Tyoluloko11 May 2011 at 11:52

    Thanks for this. You're the best!

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  11. Ahax30 September 2011 at 15:21

    lol I had this same problem thanks

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  12. hyun9 December 2011 at 08:43

    omg. me too~! thanks for you.^^

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  13. Era29 December 2011 at 19:59

    holy shit i'm such a dump...
    thanks i first thought the program was moved to something else.

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  14. Chris10 January 2012 at 23:14

    :x 

    thank you.

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  15. JamesOfNY17 February 2012 at 00:08

    LOL, you just saved me there, I was doing the exact same thing. This sort of thing is why I avoid the command line. 

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  16. George5 March 2012 at 17:46

    Thanks...just what I was looking for.

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  17. user4 May 2012 at 19:47

    Haha, well done

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  18. Kbral035 June 2012 at 17:14

    Same here.... pff xD I was totally stupid xD

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  19. Foreverpipi5 July 2012 at 22:36

    OMFG I was so stupid too, thanks dude for helping me fight my own stupidity

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  20. monica25 September 2012 at 16:22

    face palm...

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  21. Bervick22 October 2012 at 02:08

    Thanks. I misread it too.

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  22. Duh5 November 2012 at 06:42

    I did this too :D

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  23. Attix4 December 2012 at 13:51

    Lol had the same problem, thanks a lot!

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  24. Ronak18 January 2013 at 20:28

    :) thanks...

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  25. jurmo17 April 2013 at 07:04

    hahaha it can't be xD

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  26. Silly man4 May 2013 at 06:46

    You have no idea how long I've been trying to figure this out...

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  27. Silly Guy11 May 2013 at 05:37

    This is one of those mistakes you keep hitting yourself, asking "No, your kidding?!"

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  28. Ryan3 June 2013 at 08:13

    Thnxx ... , studpid mistake :(

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  29. JAG3 July 2013 at 18:11

    THANK YOU!! Thanks for taking the time to make a note to all of us who have been frustrated with this. I too had to reread your post to catch the subtle difference. Was omitting the "n" character all that beneficial/worth it? lol

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  30. Frank21 July 2013 at 13:18

    just made the same mistake :) thanks!

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  31. Electrode8 August 2013 at 19:43

    Was making the same mistake myself, thank you for clearing up the command. Helpful to new users

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  32. Sjors24 October 2013 at 09:42

    how stupid is Umount? what?? why not plain UNmount..?

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  33. JCCBama13 November 2013 at 00:47

    Thank you for spending the time to post this. I just spent 3 hours flailing about,.... because I also read "unmount" when the part of the script I was

    using clearly said "umount" . Funny! Maybe it the command should be
    "unmount"? Oh well "garbage in <----> garbage out".

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  34. Łukasz Wieczorek26 November 2013 at 16:10

    hah, wow. Same prob. thanks for post.

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  35. Scott20 July 2014 at 01:25

    trying to fix my Synology Crashed Volume. Support just sucked. finally found a the wiki to run a e2fsck. but being a windows guy, yea, I made this mistake. Thanks for posting to help the GUI folks out.

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  36. Vinay Kumar Jaiswal29 November 2014 at 08:11

    same problem. I too was typing unmount instead of umount. Thanks.

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  37. Anonymous4 February 2015 at 16:18

    <3

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  38. Anonymous27 March 2015 at 13:44

    Ha-ha-ha )) Me too! Thanks a lot!

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  39. Anonymous20 June 2015 at 11:20

    U're Genius! never would have found that one out :D

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  40. Zubair16 August 2015 at 11:30

    Thanks :)

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  41. Anonymous30 January 2016 at 22:18

    Someone get you a Nobel Prize. I was starting to pull my hair out.

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  42. Unknown2 September 2016 at 13:15

    7 years later and this post is still helpful!

    Thanks

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  43. Unknown2 September 2016 at 13:15

    7 years later and this post is still helpful!

    Thanks

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  44. Unknown8 May 2017 at 02:58

    YES! wow what a stupid mistake

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  45. Anonymous13 June 2017 at 14:43

    THANK YOU !!!!

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  46. Anonymous12 February 2018 at 14:04

    Yes, thank you for drawing attention to the fact that there second letter is not an 'n'.

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