Re: Cannot remove flash memory

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. 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.


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