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Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Recovering Win7 after installing Linux mint
Date 2016-04-05 18:44 +0000
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On 2016-04-05, HGW <HGW@home.com> wrote:
> 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.

It means that you want to unmount the partition which has been mounted
on the directory location /name/of/partition/mount/point
(Of course you have to give it the actual name of the directory location
on which the relevant partition has been mounted.)
You could try
umount -a
to umount everything Those partitions in use will not be unmounted. 
but that might unmount some stuff  you do not want unmounted. 

df -a
will list everything that is mounted. Unfortunately it used to be that
df
listed all regular mounted stuff (eg not proc, or sys..) but now it
edits stuff so that if two subdirectory of some partition are mounted 
it will only list one of them, making df much less useful. Idiocy.
df -a 
list everything, including all cgroups, etc ( a huge bunch of junk
almost noone has any interest in.)

Thus the question "whats mounted" no longer has a reasonable answer.

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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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