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    SOLVED :umount gives me "This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems." error

    Hi,

    I'm attempting to unmount a windows share that was mounted via the following command:

    sudo mount -t cifs //machineName/c$ ~/windowsmachine/ -o credentials=.pass,iocharset=utf8,noexec,ro

    The above command is part of script that mounts windows shares on the network and copies their shortcuts to a folder on my Ubuntu box, it's been running fine for ages but somehow it's got itself into a twist.

    Windows shares are mounted with an ordinary account that has sudoers rights to the mount/umount commands.

    I've deleted and recreated the mount point - ~/windowsmachine
    still no luck.

    Keeps giving the below error:

    xxxx:~$ sudo umount ~/windowsmachine/
    This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.
    This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.


    I've tried the -f (force) option still no luck!

    I've tried an account that has sudo (root) privileges, still no luck.

    I've got a few other mounts to windows shares on the go, so I don't want to kill anything that will make them die.

    Shall I just reboot and live with it? I hate rebooting as it brings into question why I switched to Linux in the first place.

    Thanks

    John
    Last edited by john_spiral; November 7th, 2009 at 09:07 AM.

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    Re: umount gives me "This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems." error

    I'm gonna reboot, gedit is even gone sh*ts up.

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    Re: umount gives me "This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems." error

    looks like Ubuntu is totally mashed!!!!!!

    Can't launch any apps within Gnome not even humble gedit.

    Gedit just launches a white screen , does anyone have any 'My Ubuntu system is horibly mashed' URL's I could look at?

    problems:

    system monitor fails to launch

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    Re: umount gives me "This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems." error

    Turns out I had too many (480000) small files on the file system, reboot a few times to check you actually can write files to the file system.

    I copied all the small files to an external 1T usb drive, to get my system operational again.

    Search for the term inode, for more info.

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