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).

Nothing seems to give...
... clearly I'm missing something obvious here?

Some process has file open from that dir. or a process sitting in it. Exit all such processes and unmount the drive. You can use lsof to find the culprit.


And you need to look into /etc/mnttab..

 Shridhar


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