[wellylug] Copying from USB stick in Redhat server

[John Durham]

Jethro Carr wrote:
> 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.
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It had about 30 seconds to complete before the USB was removed. Other 
activity appeared to have stopped first. Shouldn't that be enough?

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