On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> wrote: > > My laptop dual-boots between Ubuntu and Windows XP. Sometimes I hook my > Blackberry Storm up to the computer when the computer is running Linux, > and sometimes when it is running XP. The Storm can be set into "mass > storage" mode, where its internal memory appears to Linux or Windows as > one USB drive, and the Storm's flash memory card appears as a separate > USB drive. > > When I am through transferring data to or from the Storm, if I am using > XP, I click on "safely disconnect hardware", which flushes any pending > data to the Storm and marks its file system as clean. Unfortunately, > the equivalent process in Ubuntu, telling it to unmount the Storm's file > system, doesn't work, although it does work successfully if I have > plugged in an actual USB thumb drive. I simply have to unplug the USB > cable and hope that I got a clean result. > > Normally, this works OK. Tonight, however, the file system on the > Storm's flash memory card apparently got marked as "dirty", and, once > disconnected from the laptop, the Storm refused to mount the flash > memory card. I had to boot up XP, have it check the file system on the > memory card, and then click "safely disconnect hardware". Once that was > done, and the Storm was disconnected from the computer, it went back to > being willing to use the memory card. > > Can anyone tell me what step to use to make Ubuntu cleanly unmount the > Storm's file systems, since telling it to unmount the drive (using the > Thunar file manager application) results in an error message, saying > that an error occurred when it tried to unmount the drive? As I said > earlier, this unmounting technique works fine if I have an actual thumb > drive plugged into the laptop. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better > than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > >
Maybe you've already tried this, but even so it might be helpful to the next person that finds this message archived. Can you unmount it from command line and see if you get any output? If you're not sure where it's mounted, check the file /etc/mtab and look for it. It's probably the last line of the file. Then sudo umount /path/device The only other thing I can think of is sometimes my wife's ipod doesn't unmount correctly and the ipod manager doesn't remove the special ipod lock file in this case, but that never causes a file system error. At worst, it stops me from managing the library until I manually "unlock" the ipod with rm. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
