USB Flash Drive

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/11/29 Jesus Arocho <jesus_arocho at comcast.net>:
> I have an HP 8GB flash drive.  Kubuntu will detect the device, as per dmesg,
> but fails to mount the same.  If I insert into a windows machine and run eject
> and the return it to the Linux box, it will be recognized; removing the device
> from the Linux box will result in the same drive to fail to mount unless it
> makes another visit to Windows machine.  I did try to unmount before removing
> the device.  Any ideas?
>

How are you unmounting the device in Linux? Try running the sync
command before unmounted, and after unmounting before pulling it out.
Does that help?


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