Help unmounting USB stick

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi Peter,

I rebooted my computer (I hate doing that) and now it seems to work. 
That is, when I rebooted the computer went back to its original state. I 
inserted the stick and it auto-mounted. I unmounted and pulled it out. 
Then I put it back in and this time it auto-mounted again correctly. 
I've tried that a couple of times and it works.

I'll save your email in case I have problems again. I don't like it when 
things work by magick...

Thank you for the help.

Best,
Daniel.

Peter Garrett wrote:
> Try these:
> 
> pumount /dev/sda1
> 
> then there's 
> 
> eject /dev/sda1
> 
> Also, you might get better info by running  dmesg | tail after plugging t
> he device in (it should tell you the device - for instance "sda" )
> 
> There is a way to "force" a umount but it's kind of messy
> 
> umount -l   (so called lazy umount)
> 
> In general for USB storage devices you would use pmount/ pumount
> 
> Peter
> 


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