un-mount usb stick

[asm1]

Hi all,
Now that I have finely got the usb flash stick mounted(thread619-769729) my question is can I just unplug the device or should I use some un-mount command, the reason I am asking is when I unplug the device the files stay in the /mnt/usb directory, I am using RH9.
Thx



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[flugh]

Did you try 'umount /mnt/usb'?


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[jstreich]

Always unmount before remving media-- flopies/cd/flash. a simple unmount <path> should work.

 

[asm1]

i have tried the umount but didnt seem to work
can u explain a simple unmount <path>
thx

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[zeland]

Please explain &quot;didn't work&quot;. Usually you can unmount (the reverse of mount) a device either by device or by location (path). e.g when you mounted your flash drive with

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

you can:

1)umount /mnt/usb (by location)
2)umount /dev/sda1 (by device)

make sure that your current path is not within /mnt/usb and also make sure that any window or application is not accessing /mnt/usb.

 

[asm1]

that could be the problem. i had a window open as i was going to watch it happen. i will try again
thx for your reply.

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