On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:49, Justin Jon L. Jereza wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:43, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > > To make that on-topic for PLUG... it works fine as a USB Mass Storage device. > > But, how do you "Safely Remove Hardware" (as in Windows) in Linux? > > If you just unmount and disconnect the device, the kernel spews I/O errors. > > i just unmount the device and then wait for the i/o LED to stop > blinking. it's probably flushing the cache after you unmount it so you > can't remove it right away.
Or if you can force to flush the cache by issuing a "sync" command just before unmounting the drive. So just use "sync && umount <mounted_pt>" intead of just umount. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
