Re: Unable to Unmount Flash Drive



On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 04:06 -0800, Baz wrote:
Hello -

I'm getting the following error message every time I attempt to
unmount my USB flash drive.

Error

Cannot unmount volume

The volume was probably mounted manually on the command line.

Details

Device to unmount is not in /media/.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by
HAL

Contrary to the message, I didn't mount it manually on the command
line. It's been occurring now about a week. Previously, there was no
problem. I guess it's not a big issue just pulling it out, but I'd
rather do it the proper way. Since it began, I've been going to
Administration > Disk and simply disabling it.

I get this a lot when I delete files on the device.

Empty the trash (or remove /where/mounted/.Trash-<username> directory)
and then try to umount it.

That is annoying to me.
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