[Solved]How do I unmount a usb drive?

[theAdmiral]

How do I unmount a usb drive?

thanks,
theAdmiral

[dibl]

Re: How do I unmount a usb drive?

How did you mount it?

If you simply plugged it in and opened it in a window, then you can open either Dolphin or the "plugged devices notifier", right-click on the device, and choose "safely remove". Then, when the LED blinking has stopped, it is safe to pull the USB plug.

If, on the other hand you used the "mount" command to mount it, you can issue

sudu umount /dev/sdxx

and it will be unmounted, "xx" being the device/partition number of your drive.

[Guest]

Re: [Solved]How do I unmount a usb drive?

I don't think this topic shall be marked as solved. on Karmic Koala, 9.10, device notifier refuses to umount any usb drive, everytime saying that device is still used.

problem can be solved by manual umount like described above, but I don't think it is the best option. Can somebody help me out?

[dibl]

Re: [Solved]How do I unmount a usb drive?

Karmic Koala (9.10) is an Alpha stage testing system. It is not for production or any purpose where reliability is needed.

If you believe there is a bug in the USB mounting function, you should report it to the Launchpad site for 9.10.