Thanks Patrick, I didn't notice your reply before... I expect I would have tried that, but it wasn't in my email so maybe not. Next time I use usb media, I plan to try fuse, which I may have better luck with.
Thanks again, -George On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Patrick Welche <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:36:20PM -0700, George Georgalis wrote: > > Is there a graceful way to abort and umount the broken device? Don't care > > about the data, have tried SIGKILL the processes etc but at this point > it > > looks like I have to powercycle to release the umass device. > > Does umount -f help? > > -f The file system is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices > continue to work, but all other files return errors if further > accesses are attempted. The root file system cannot be > forcibly > unmounted. > > > Cheers, > > Patrick > -- George Georgalis, (415) 894-2710, http://www.galis.org/
