[PLUG] Re: Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-03 Thread Debajit Adhikary
This seems to be a "problem" with only SuSE 9.1: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/5/2004/08/2/179440 -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/maili

Re: [PLUG] Re: Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-03 Thread James Dominy
Debajit Adhikary wrote: Debajit Adhikary wrote: How could I safely remove a USB drive attached on the fly to my Linux system? umount does work. In fact, there is no error message at all, but the flash drive still keeps blinking -- and it doesnt seem safe to remove the drive yet. I'm running

Re: [PLUG] Re: Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Debajit Adhikary wrote: As root umount /media/usb* works What do you mean works? As in it does not report errors? /etc/mtab shows a ubsfs mounted filesystem in /proc/sys/usb umount /proc/sys/usb works as well It's just that the Flash drive still keeps blinking. I would suppose that that is the def

[PLUG] Re: Unmounting and Removing a USB Flash Drive in Linux?

2004-11-03 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Debajit Adhikary wrote: > How could I safely remove a USB drive attached on the fly to my Linux system? umount does work. In fact, there is no error message at all, but the flash drive still keeps blinking -- and it doesnt seem safe to remove the drive yet. I'm running SuSE 9.1, which mounts it u