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    Smile cannot unmount windows (hp backup) partition in Wubi ubuntu installation

    hi guys,in my dual boot laptop(Compaq with windows and Ubuntu 10.04), I have two windows partitions
    one is hp backup partition and other is the file system in windows. I tried to share windows files in Ubuntu with ntfs-config, but now the problem is I can only see the hp backup partition on my desktop. When I try to unmount it I could not. My question is how can I unmount the hp backup partition permanently and mount the other partition for file sharing in Ubuntu, I almost forgot..I have also uninstalled ntfs configuration tool.thanks/
    Last edited by rsv.suresh; July 25th, 2010 at 11:03 PM.

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    Re: cannot unmount windows (hp backup) partition

    Please post the output of the following commands so we can all see what's up:

    Code:
    sudo blkid -c /dev/null
    Code:
    cat /etc/fstab

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    Re: cannot unmount windows (hp backup) partition

    output for
    Code:
    sudo blkid -c /dev/nul
    /dev/loop0: UUID="b5c510b3-43e3-49b0-858c-ff437717070d" TYPE="ext4"
    /dev/sda1: UUID="600C00CB0C009E62" TYPE="ntfs"
    /dev/sda2: LABEL="PRESARIO_RP" UUID="2C88743C8874071C" TYPE="ntfs"

    and output for
    Code:
    cat /etc/fstab
    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

    proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
    /dev/sda1 /host ntfs-3g defaults,nosuid,nodev,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
    /dev/sda2 /media/PRESARIO_RP ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=0222 00
    /host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk / ext4 loop,errors=remount-ro 0 1
    /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap loop,sw 0 0

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    Re: cannot unmount windows (hp backup) partition

    Um ... this looks like a Wubi install to me - You installed Ubuntu within Windows? I don't know very much about Wubi but I think the host Windows partitions are already mounted for you at:
    /host
    /media
    You don't need to have anything else mounted in fstab.

    If I were you I would change the title of your post to include the word Wubi so that someone who has experience with that can respond.

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    Re: cannot unmount windows (hp backup) partition

    thanks for the reply morbius1. I'll change the title to wubi.

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    Re: cannot unmount windows (hp backup) partition

    If your trying to use this method as a longterm use your going about in a a manner that is balancing on the Windows program always working, not good odds. The two OS can have stuff transferred, but a real dual boot would be a better option.





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