Ubuntu

unmount hard drive

Asked by Scott Puopolo

I have installed 7.04 onto my system. When the desktop comes up regardless of user, Ubuntu mounts a Windows NTFS partition and also a FAT32 partition. I don't want these partitions visible from Ubuntu by default. Looking at the properties of these drives shows that they are 'owned' by root. Do I need to login as 'root' to remove them? How do I login as 'root'? I also use BeOS on this system which allows you to specify what types of partitions are mounted at bootup. I would like to allow access to the NTFS and FAT32 partitions to admin level login only, not to anyone who logs in. Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said : 		#1

Hello Scott,

to unmount the disk open a terminal and enter:

sudo umount /media/hda1 (hda1 in my case, check the correct id on your system)

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Mathias

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