Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Hello,
I have a PNY USB memory device (256MB). Question is: when using default SuSE 9.1 subfs (I have run YOU so I may have updates but I haven't done any manual hacking), what is the proper way to remove the USB device - just pull it? This scares me a little bit because I _thought_ subfs was sort of like automount - thought it would automatically umount the device after a timeout. But it never does: I can wait for ages and the "mount" command will still show it to be mounted.
On Windows after clicking the "Stop Device" menu the light on the USB drive goes out, but on Linux the light never stops shining. I have tried running 'umount /media/fancy-long-device-name' but that doesn't change anything (no errors but it doesn't seem to umount it either).
I have yet to come up with any firm guidelines on this myself, so I usually just do a 'sync' to flush the file buffers and yank the drive. I have yet to encounter any file corruption doing this. HTH, Ken