[Clug-tech] Procedure for removing USB drives

[Mark Carlson]

On 11/28/06, Jon <me at jonwatson.ca> wrote:
> Mark Carlson wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried just running umount on it?
>
> That's my M.O. when not in a GUI. When in a GUI, as Mitchell pointed
> out, right-click and 'eject' works well.
>
> I've had the same thing happen and it's annoying. Umount will
> unfailingly tell me the drive is busy if it hasn't copied all of its
> data regardless of whether the light is on or not.

Well, you could always do a umount -f, but that probably wouldn't get
around the 'sync' problem :-(

-Mark