On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:26:57 +0530, Debajit Adhikary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > -- check out put of lsof command and grep it to see if any file on the device is being used.
your device should be listed in /etc/mtab not necessarily in /etc/fstab. HTH -- Shashank Ashtikar -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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.
