Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

["Peter N. Spotts" <pspotts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allen,

You've gotten a couple of high-tech answers...let me try a lower-tech
approach. And pardon me if you've already considered the following...

I've experienced the same problem on several distros -- Mandrake, Red
Hat, and SuSE 9.0. In my case, it happens because:

a. I'm transferring large files or large numbers of files and the
directory from which I'm transferring shows empty, while they appear in
on the outboard drive. So I try to unmount, forgetting that the files
may not have fully crossed to the outboard drive yet.

or

b. I have a minimized terminal window, file manager, or app that is set
to the drive I'm trying to unmount, and I've either momentarily
forgotten to shut the program down or >cd .. back up to a higher level
directory.

Thus, when I get those kinds of unmount messages, those are the first
two things I check.

Best,

Pete

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