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Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint

From HGW <HGW@home.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint
Date 2016-04-06 04:39 +1000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 06/04/16 01:27, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2016-04-05, HGW <HGW@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> bliss
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you boot from a live CD the hard disk will NIT be mounted, or if it
>>> is you can unmount it and partitioning tools can then work
>>
>> That is what I thought, too. But how do I unmount the partition. Gparted
>> does not say anything about mounting or unmounting. Is deactivating the
>> same thing?
>>
>
> As root
> umount /name/of/partition/mount/point
> Note that if you are not running gparted as root, you cannot do
> anything.

I'm not sure if I know what that means. But I will try it. I basically 
want to reduce the size of the Mint partition so I can reinstall Windows 
if I want it.


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Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint HGW <hw@...> - 2016-04-05 15:01 +1000
  Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-04-04 22:18 -0700
    Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint HGW <HGW@home.com> - 2016-04-05 20:53 +1000
      Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-05 12:12 +0100
        Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint HGW <HGW@home.com> - 2016-04-05 21:31 +1000
          Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-05 12:43 +0100
          Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-04-05 15:27 +0000
            Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint HGW <HGW@home.com> - 2016-04-06 04:39 +1000
              Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-04-05 18:44 +0000
              Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-04-05 19:26 +0000
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint HGW <HGW@home.com> - 2016-04-06 08:01 +1000
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-04-05 22:17 +0000
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-06 12:40 +0200
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-04-06 07:37 -0700
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-06 19:40 +0200
              Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-06 16:59 +0000
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-04-06 23:11 +0000
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-04-06 16:44 -0700
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-09 02:30 +0200
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-09 12:15 +0100
      Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-05 14:44 +0200
        Re: Recovering Win7 ^ Correct^ philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-05 08:00 -0500
          Re: Recovering Win7 ^ Correct^ Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-04-05 13:26 +0000
            Re: Recovering Win7 ^ Correct^ philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-05 09:19 -0500
              Re: Recovering Win7 ^ Correct^ Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-04-05 07:58 -0700
                Re: Recovering Win7 ^ Correct^ philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-05 10:14 -0500
        Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint HGW <HGW@home.com> - 2016-04-06 03:18 +1000
          Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-05 13:30 -0500
            Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-06 12:44 +0200
              Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-06 12:08 -0500
                Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-06 20:32 +0100
      Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-04-05 12:53 +0000
  Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint Andreas Kohlbach <avr16.10.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-04-05 16:39 -0400

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