I am new to linux but it sounds like there might be a processing running that keeps it from unmounting successfully. Can you do a ps -e to see? Then you should be able to issue the kill command.
Don Delp wrote: > 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. > > > > -- *Kevin Marker* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
