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



On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:33:15PM -0400, H. S. wrote:

> No I did not. When I first got the "device busy" or "you are root"
> message, that was the first thing I checked. It is the first thing I
> always check when umounting gives me any problems.

If the stick isn't mounted sync, then it can take quite a while for all
the buffers to flush.

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