I have very little experience with linux, so maybe this is a dumb question :)

I run Ubuntu 24.04 on a machine, and I had an old HDD in a usb-case which I mounted using fstab. Worked fine, but I decided it wasn't appropriate for my purpose and removed it (physically and from fstab).

But it still shows up in the file manager? What am I missing?

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    fstab tells the system what to mount on boot; it doesnt live reload! In future to unmount something do:

    sudo umount /path/to/mountpoint

    This command also works for something in your fstab, because fstab is only relevant during boot.