Apparently, _Todd A. Jacobs_, on 26/04/05 22:26,typed:
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.
I one of my earlier posts in this thread, I gave the output of the mount command. I guess the stick is mounted sync: /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,noatime,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077)
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