Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: > On Tuesday 02 November 2004 03:26 pm, Debajit Adhikary wrote: > > How could I safely remove a USB drive attached on the fly to my Linux > > system? > > > > As of now, I cannot seem to unmount it because it is not listed in > > /etc/fstab (that's the error message I get). > umount /dev/sda > eject /dev/sda
Okie ... finally managed to solve it once and for all ;) (In SuSE 9.1 at least) You can use any of the following ways (as any normal user): Type any of these in the Run dialog or the command line: (1) eject sda1 (2) eject sda (3) eject /media/usb* (replace "/media/usb*" with your mountpoint) eject is guaranteed to automatically unmount, so an additional unmount command is not needed. I find it funny that KDE or even SuSE (which supposedly has the largest r&d team for a linux distro) did not care enough to include en "Eject" option for such removable "hard" disks in the right click menu. (BTW, where do we post feature requests and "wish"es for KDE? Anyone have the link?). It is in little areas like these that Windows scores over Linux in usability -- especially for the average user. Lets see how kde3.3 handles this ... -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
