Help unmounting USB stick

[Mats Holmberg]

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> 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


One more comment. I had similar troubles with a 128M usb stick. It 
mounted only once after reboot, and many times even hanged my computer 
when I unmounted and pulled it out. The problem was that after pressing 
'eject' Ubuntu told me was unmounted (removed icon from desktop), but 
actually it still had something to do. I watched the led on the stick, 
and it didn't go out until after a while after I had pressed eject. So 
all I now have to do is wait a bit before actually pulling my stick out 
of the port. Works well that way, and mounts/unmounts normally without 
reboot.

Mats