sudo fuser -k /media/usbdrive. Change /media/usbdrive to where your USB drive is mounted.This command kills all processing accessing your usb drive and then a simple eject command from your GNOME or KDE explorer will do the trick
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Showing posts with label usb unmount. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Unable to unmount usb drive due to unknown processes?
If you are unable to unmount the disk using the GUI in GNOME or KDE, just open up a terminal and run
This command kills all processing accessing your usb drive and then a simple eject command from your GNOME or KDE explorer will do the trick
This command kills all processing accessing your usb drive and then a simple eject command from your GNOME or KDE explorer will do the trick
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