<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Unmount non-Linux partitions and network drives</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.56"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Install both disks on your system" HREF="install.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Partition the new disk" HREF="partition.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="install.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="partition.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="UNMOUNT" >3. Unmount non-Linux partitions and network drives</A ></H1 ><P >Some people like to mount partitions from other operating systems (DOS, Windows, OS/2, etc.) so they can use them under Linux. These partitions must be created and copied under their own operating system, and you should unmount them before copying your Linux partition. For example, if you have a DOS partition mounted at <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dos</TT >, you must unmount it with this command: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >umount /dos</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P >Note that the command is <B CLASS="COMMAND" >umount</B >, without the first letter <I CLASS="WORDASWORD" >n</I > in the word <I CLASS="WORDASWORD" >unmount</I >.</P ><P >You should also unmount network drives.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="install.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="partition.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Install both disks on your system</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Partition the new disk</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >