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

46 comments:

  1. Thanks. You saved my day!

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  2. 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. Thank you so much!

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

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  5. Thanks, I was about to start smashing things.

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

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  7. Grant Vanstaden19 March 2011 at 13:19

    Thank you. I had this exact problem.

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  8. Thanks for this. You're the best!

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  9. lol I had this same problem thanks

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

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

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  12. 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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  13. Thanks...just what I was looking for.

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

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

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  16. Thanks. I misread it too.

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  17. Lol had the same problem, thanks a lot!

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  18. hahaha it can't be xD

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

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

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  21. Thnxx ... , studpid mistake :(

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  22. 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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  23. just made the same mistake :) thanks!

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

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

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  26. 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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  27. Ɓukasz Wieczorek26 November 2013 at 16:10

    hah, wow. Same prob. thanks for post.

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  28. 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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  29. Vinay Kumar Jaiswal29 November 2014 at 08:11

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

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

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

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

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  33. 7 years later and this post is still helpful!

    Thanks

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  34. 7 years later and this post is still helpful!

    Thanks

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  35. YES! wow what a stupid mistake

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  36. THANK YOU !!!!

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

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