Cannot remove flash memory

[Kipton Moravec]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 21:12 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Kipton Moravec a écrit :
> > Less than an hour ago I asked a friend and Linux Guru how do I remove
> > the USB Stick? I did not see a dismount command on the GUI.  He said
> > just pull it out, just make sure you are not writing to it when you
> > remove it. 
> > 
> > He said Linux is way ahead of Microsoft when it comes to Hot Swapping
> > devices. Cool!
> > 
> > Kip
> 
> LOL , please don't teach people that kind of thing.
> 
> Well, it's true that  you can pull off a device when nothing is 
> accessing it. it's the same thing on windows too. But how are you sure 
> nothing is accessing it ?
> 
> The advantage of Linux is that there is not much processes running on 
> background that will access your stick without letting you know.
> 
> So the very thing to do is to unmount your disk to be sure that nothing 
> will access it when you'll unplug it. gnome and kde offer a User 
> friendly way to do it by right-clicking. 

My first impression is right clicking what? When I put the disk in a
window popped up with the directory. There was nothing on the directory
that said anything about removing the USB disk. Right click on the
window did not have anything on it either.  So I had no idea what you
were talking about.

I closed the window and minimized evolution (it is always running) and
finally saw there was an icon on the desk top called "usbdisk". I right
clicked it and sure enough there is an eject button option. 

Thanks for the pointer. Just remember for some of us newer folks, that
only know how to use the GUI and not the command line, you have to be a
little clearer. :)

> but on the Shell :
> 
> $ sudo umount /media/<my usb stick>
> 
> should do it too .
> If it doesn't want to unmount the you can add the -l flag.
> 
> $ sudo umount -l /media/<usb stick>
> 
> anyhow, never pull off your stick or disk without unmounting it.
> 
> 

Thanks again,
Kip
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Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>