can't unmount usb hd

[Alan Dayley]

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On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Robert Holtzman  wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Alan Dayley wrote:
>
>> Admittedly I have not looked at mtab during these steps to see when
>> "true" unmounting has occurred.  I am trusting the icons and menus to
>> tell me it's safe to unplug.  So maybe my experience doesn't help you
>> much.  I have not had disk corruption following the above sequences.
>
> To trust the icons to tell whether the drive is mounted or not is rolling
> the dice. One day you may roll snake eyes. Reread my post to see why.

You are absolutely correct.  But I trust the icons anyway.  I do this
because a basic computer user, just coming to Linux would not go look
at mtab or whatever.  They would trust the icons.  If I cannot
successfully use a distro in a way my non-geek friends and family
would, I cannot recommend that they use it.

So I have to test it. And report any problems back to the distro.

Alan

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