Re: Unmounting Filesystem problems after removing USB drive

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Stan-  

Thanks for using my gmail account to post to the list... anywhoo ...
fsck solved your problem ... and be more careful unplugging things.

Dan


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:59:31 -0500, Dan Kovacik <kovacik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Sirs-
> 
> I have two Maxtor USB drives that I use for backups. I swap the drives
> in rotation. Today I did not umount the drive before pulling the power
> and yanking the USB cable.
> 
> The new USB drive can still be mounted and written to ... but ... df
> is showing the drive to have 0 bits available (100% used), and the
> best part ... taking down the machine hangs with the last line
> reading:
> 
> "Unmounting Filesystem      [OK]"
> 
> which I'm beginning to think is not OK.
> 
> This problems has persisted through at least 2 power cycles, and the
> other drive has been locked in a safe until next year. How can I get
> df to realize that I have a new USB drive?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stan
>


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