Is it possible to unmount the /home partition?
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You can enter single user mode for such operations by adding 's' to the end of grub boot line edit or run sudo init 1. there you can umount /home, if again get errors run sudo umount -fl /home. -f force and -l disconnect in lazy!
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Victor S
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Victor S over 1 year
I want to recover some files in my home directory using extundelete
http://sourceforge.net/projects/extundelete/
This tool needs to unmount the device before start to work, but I cannot umount /home:
$ sudo umount /home umount: /home: not mounted-
0xC0000022L about 11 yearsExecute
mount|grep /home... what is the output? If it's empty,/homeis perhaps not on its own partition?! -
Ashu about 11 yearsWhy not try Live cd/USB?
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