how to umount flash disk

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:42:49PM -0700, Nofriyadi Nurdam wrote:
> Hallo Gurus,
>  
>  I have a problem with my flash disk. Usually I put in my flash disk and my computer presented it on the screen. In this case, it is easy to eject the flash disk.
>  Sometimes the computer does not present it on the screen. In this case, I have to umount it on console. I have tried to umount with the command:  $ umount /mnt/flashdisk
>  But it did not work. Message form linux was:  /mnt/flasfdisk is not mounted (according to mtab)
>  Could you help me please, how to umount the flashdisk

Maybe it wasn't mounted.  Maybe it wasn't mounted where you thought it
was.  You can find out by simply doing a

  df

That's as in "disk free", or you could use

  mount

but "df" is quicker and easier to read.  Remember that you can umount
it by device name (e.g. /dev/sda1) as well as by mount point.

Also, with the more recent releases, the mount point is more likely to
be /media/<something>, where "<something>" is likely to be "usb",
particularly if it is automounted.

>  Thanks in advance
>  Nofriyadi

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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