Re: Cannot remove flash memory

On 29/11/06, Toby Dickenson <toby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which kde versions are you using? some recent hal/kde updates have caused
problems for usb sticks:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/70417
https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/72869

I'm on KDE 3.5.5. Also, I've no problem mounting, only unmounting.

First check if the device is still mounted, using the mount command:

$ mount
/dev/hda8 on / type reiserfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
<many lines deleted>
/dev/sda1 on /media/STICK type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,
uid=1001,utf8,shortname=lower)

You should be able to unmount it with the pumount command. If this fails, it
will often give a better error message that kde. For example in this case I
still had konqueror window open:

Thank you, I will keep this in mind.

After unmounting there is still no guarantee that all the data has been
written. Particularly if you have a slow memory stick. Try the
command 'sync'. This will only return when all outstanding data has been
written.

If anything seems to be going wrong then check /var/log/syslog for kernel
error messages.


Will do. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

http://dotancohen.com/
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/drm.html

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