Hello, On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Stan Goodman wrote:
At the moment, there is a memory stick in a USB port in my machine. In "My Computer" (as they say in Windowese), it has a line in the list of storage devices. When I float the mouse cursor over it, a confidence-inspiring message appears, assuring me that I can "Press the right mouse button for more options (such as Mount or Eject)".
Pressing the right button does give me a list of things I might do, but neither Mount or Eject (or any synonym) appears. Short of shutting the machine down in order to flush the device's buffer, how does one remove the memory stick?
Open an xterm (or a KDE Konsole or a Gnome-term or ... ) and enter: sync that flushes the buffers. You can also do that device-specifically and with a following unmount by entering eject /dev/sdX where sdX is the device of your USB-Stick. If you don't know the device, enter mount do see a list of mounted devices and their mountpoints. The stick is probably the last entry and should be identifiable from it's mountpoint. Oh, by "enter" I mean above: enter the commands as specified, adapted to your situation (here: sdX would be /dev/sdk or /dev/sdl or even /dev/sdm on my machine ;) And then "run" the entered command by pressing the "Return" or "Enter" key. I'm ignorant of GUI stuff that would do the same things. HTH, -dnh -- The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the "social sciences" is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org