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?
I could be wrong but I thought fstab only runs those commands on boot? If so you’ll need to manually unmount using “umount” for now. It shouldnt be there next reboot
Well, I just rebooted and it’s still there, which is what is confusing me :) But thanks!
So I should unmount it in other ways too?
What directory is it mounted to? May just be as simple as deleting that directory if its empty. (Assuming its like /media/xxx/ or /mnt/yyy/)
Check with lsblk command if anything is in those directories
It’s mounted to /srv which is not empty, and I can also still browse some of the folders on the removed drive, which is also confusing :) I don’t understand how that’s even possible.
Edit: It does not show up as a drive, but the mount directory is still there with a folder structure and a single file.
I suspect that your /srv had already existed before you mounted that drive for the very first time, and there were even some files in /srv.
The mounting of the drive has made these “old” /srv files invisible. But it has not deleted them. Now you unmounted the drive, and they have come back like Zombies :)
When you mount something into a directory that already exists, the drive mount replaces the original contents. When the drive is unmounted, the original contents are restored.
Does lsblk say it was mounted to /srv? If the drive doesn’t show up in lsblk that means that /srv is non-empty and those files exist on whatever drive your root directory is on