[ale] Stupid Question Time

[Geoffrey Myers]

Michael Nolan wrote:
> I can't figure out how I did this.
> 
> While working on fixing a Seagate 7200.11 BSY error fix, I attached
> and mounted a drive from a HP Windows machine that had two partitions
> on it using Mount Manager (*I think*)
> 
> This machine has a 120 GB SSD and 2 terabyte WD Caviar Black and a
> popgplug mount point mounted in /media
> 
> I mounted the two partitions from the Seagate 7200.11 drive as sdc1
> and sdc2 in /media  and copied all the data off them to the 2GB drive.
> 
> After I got the data off the drives, I logged off and shut down and
> pulled the drive. The mount points for the partitions remains in
> /media along with the 2 GB drive and popgoplug.
> 
> I now have no option to delete them or remove them and they persist in
> /media even though the physical drive is in the basement collecting
> dust.
> 
> I'm sue I'm looking for the wrong terms in Google, or something simple
> to do, and just can't seem to find it. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction for the solution to get these artifacts off the drive?
> 
> Should I put the drive back in and unmount it?
> 
> Thank for any help, jokes, snide remarks, punts, haiku poems, you all
> may be able to provide that will send me on my was.

They should be just directories.  rmdir should do the trick.
> 
> Mike N,
> 
> 
> 
> mike at Pappy:~$ sudo fdisk -l
> [sudo] password for mike:
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0003d6a6
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *        2048   200935423   100466688   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2       200937470   234440703    16751617    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5       200937472   234440703    16751616   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000bbc3f
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1            2048  3907028991  1953513472   83  Linux
> 
> 
> 
> mike at Pappy:~$ cd /media
> mike at Pappy:/media$ ls
> 2T_ext3  pogoplug  sdc1  sdc3
> mike at Pappy:/media$
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Until later, Geoffrey

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