[wellylug] Copying from USB stick in Redhat server

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 11:21 +1200, John Durham wrote:
> > umount /mnt/usbstick
> > 
> > Sometimes with SCSI devices you need to use eject as well
> > 
> > eject /dev/sda
> > 
> > but normally umount does the trick.
> You are probably right. After umounting it, I removed the stick. That 
> produced a series of messages saying things like "unable to read partition".
> 
> There seems to be always one more twist, doesn't there?
> Thanks anyway for the reminder.


I've never heard of needing to use eject on a USB stick before - you did
make sure that the umount command had finished didn't you? It will
return you to a prompt once complete.

Sometimes it takes a few seconds to complete, as it has to write the
cache to the disk before it can umount the filesystem - if you were to
pull it out whilst this was happening, you'd get the errors.


-- 
Jethro Carr

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