eject my pen drive

[damn_bkb]

i have a pen drive which has a glow light when i its plugged in.. in windows wen ejected the light goes off.. but in linux, when i eject or unmount the pen doent gets ejected properly... is there a way out?

[devils casper]

Hi !!

How you unmount pen-drive ?? did you use 'umount' command.



.... casper ....

[Kojak]

Which desktop environment do you use? KDE? Gnome? other? And which distro version are you using?

[damn_bkb]

i used umount command... to no use and then even the eject command.... when i used the ejct command , the name in the /dev/ goes off but its not fully unplugged

[damn_bkb]

i am using mandriva 2006 version and i user kde.... but i hope i have the same problem in both kde and gnome....

[devils casper]

Hi !

there are a few processes which run in background and retains pen drive status. e.g. Konqueror always retain a copy of last window in memory for fast access.
before umount, close all windows... and make sure that no proccess using it.



.... casper ....

[Kojak]

Try:
fuser -km /<usbstick>

and if that fails, try:
umount -f -l /mnt/<usbstick-place>

Use the last one at your own risk. It can cause data-loss.

[devils casper]

Try:
fuser -km /<usbstick>

thanx Kojak !
i didn't know about fuser...

EDIT : ooooooooops .....
hi kojak ! i think i wrote "thanx kajok" in some other thread too. going to correct that also.


.... casper ....

[Kojak]

Errmm.... it's Kojak, not Kajok.