Re: only 'umount -l' works with one of my usb sticks

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Subject: Re: only 'umount -l' works with one of my usb sticks
From: "Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:58:51 -0600
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On 2005-04-23, H. S. penned:
>
> I just noticed that the problem has ocurred again. I transfered a
> 123MB file from hard disk to the USB stick and after the file
> transfer was complete the USB stick refused to unmount citing that
> it was still busy.
>

I hate to ask, but did you have a terminal open to a directory on the
USB drive when you tried to umount the drive?

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monique

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