Help removing some stuff

[92b16vx]

Ok, I reinstalled FC4 on a brand new 80G, and started getting things like they were But I messed something up during mounting my Windows and external NTFS drives. When I open Windows it goes to my external (even thoguh in properties it says /dev/hda1) and my external just sits there and thinks, but never opens. I want to start over and unmount everything, but when I try to unmount my windows, I get this
[error]Could not unmount device.
The reported error was:
umount: it seems /mnt/windows is mounted multiple times[/error]

I have tried...., but I can't seem to get the right command...

[john@localhost ~]$ -e /mnt/johnsHDD
bash: -e: command not found
[john@localhost ~]$ delete /mnt/johnsHDD
bash: delete: command not found
[john@localhost ~]$ remove /mnt/johnsHDD
bash: remove: command not found

What do I need to do to roll back teh clock to where I "mkdir /mnt/windows" for the first time?


And I also need to know how to remove the jre1.5.0_04 files I moved into opt because for some reason Java didn't take, and I want to start over, but it just keeps using the same file, and not overwriting it.

[92b16vx]

I know why Java didn't take, when I added the file to my browser, I didn't replace the i386 to i586 and didn't change jre1.5.0_03 to jre1.5.0_04...silly me. But it still won't let remove the old ones.

[92b16vx]

I have now tried

-r
rm
rm -f
rm-fr
rmdir
all for /mnt/windows

I haven't tried on the opt directory because I don't know if this is a good idea.
Nothing works because it is still being used

[root@localhost ~]# rmdir /opt/jre1.5.0_04
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04': Directory not empty
[root@localhost ~]# rmdir -p  /opt/jre1.5.0_04/parent/child
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/parent/child': No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# rmdir -p /opt/jre1.5.0_04
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04': Directory not empty
[root@localhost ~]# rmdir -p /opt/jre1.5.0_04/*
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/bin': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/CHANGES': Not a directory
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/COPYRIGHT': Not a directory
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/javaws': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/lib': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/LICENSE': Not a directory
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/man': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/plugin': Directory not empty
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/README': Not a directory
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt': Not a directory
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/Welcome.html': Not a directory
[root@localhost ~]# rmdir -p /opt/jre1.5.0_04/parent*
rmdir: `/opt/jre1.5.0_04/parent*': No such file or directory

Still there

[92b16vx]

And here is my /etc/fstab

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows auto gid=500,umask=002,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/johnsHDD auto gid=500,umask=002,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1               /media/MINIHDD          vfat    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder1      auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

I don't know, looks right to me.

[VN-Frank]

I suggest, go sleep and clear your mind first.

Tomorrow the first thing you do: review your own 4 postings

(this is unreal....)

[92b16vx]

I am wide awake thanks though, if you can see what my problem is, than please post it, if not....whatever

[brianmsu80]

I guess I don't understand what you are trying to do...

to remove a directory:
rm -rf /mnt/windows
rm -rf /mnt/johnsHDD

to unmount, force unmount, where /dev/hda is the device you are trying to unmount, df -h and mount
umount /dev/hda
umount /dev/hda -l

Is that what you are looking for?

[brianmsu80]

umount /dev/hda -l

..where the ending is a lowercase L
-l

[92b16vx]

Originally Posted by brianmsu80

I guess I don't understand what you are trying to do...

to remove a directory:
rm -rf /mnt/windows
rm -rf /mnt/johnsHDD

to unmount, force unmount, where /dev/hda is the device you are trying to unmount, df -h and mount
umount /dev/hda
umount /dev/hda -l

Is that what you are looking for?

Force unmount might have worked, boot I just reinstalled.

I had tried rm -rf /mnt/windows but it told me it couldn't do it, I was forgetting the force unmount option.

What I was trying to do was get rid of the java install, because I screwed up and was copy pasting from teh how to, I changed the first two parts, but not the last when you actually add it to Firefox, so it wasn't working, but I couldn't get the files to remove to let me reinstall the right way.

And the NTFS issue, I was trying to mount my Windows and external, both of which are NTFS, but I mounted /mnt/windows an extra time by mistake when adding the external, so when I was trying to unmount it to go back, I couldn't. Thanks for your response though, I'll remember the force unmount if sopmethinglike this happens again. It sucks trying to read through a bunch of PDFs to find how to do one thing.

[brianmsu80]

I guess I also don't understand how you "mounted something an extra time". You shouldnt need to reinstall for some drive mount points. Just comment out the line in /etc/fstab by putting a # at the beginning, and rebooting or mount -a to sync fstab.