<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Ioannis Vranos <<a href="mailto:ioannis.vranos@gmail.com">ioannis.vranos@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"> > It says me: > > ***** > /dev/sdb1 is mounted. > > WARNING!!! The filesystem is mounted. If you continue you ***WILL*** > cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage. > > Do you really want to continue (y/n)? > **** > > Should I go? I have many imp. files in the usb drive hard disk and they > would remain safe i guess...? </div>*No. Unmount the filesystem first. df -h to see the directory the fileystem is mounted. Then umount /directoryPath </blockquote></div> Oh sorry but now it has been umounted. I did it as follows; cd /media umount <name of usb harddisk> now i run 'df -h' and its not listed there now i run sudo fdisk -l it gives me as follows: ******************** myfamily@myfamily-desktop:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 110G 25G 80G 24% / none 997M 288K 997M 1% /dev none 1001M 260K 1001M 1% /dev/shm none 1001M 80K 1001M 1% /var/run none 1001M 0 1001M 0% /var/lock none 1001M 0 1001M 0% /lib/init/rw /dev/sdb1 299G 183G 116G 62% /media/parshwa wh myfamily@myfamily-desktop:~$ ********************* should i run now: fsck -y /dev/sdb1 And all my files would be safe? -- Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says, "What's wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!" =================================================== <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/whyilikeubuntu/" target="_blank">Ubuntu LTS is good</a>! ===================================================