On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:48 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Em Domingo 05 Novembro 2006 20:01, Paul Smith escreveu: > > Dear All > > > > The option of "safely remove" for removing pen drives is not working > > properly here. To safely remove my pen drive I have to use the command > > line through the command 'umount /dev/sda1'. Any ideas how to repair > > that? > > > > Do you wait for the pendrive icon vanishes from desktop or konqueror after > clicking "safely remove"? It may take some time to flush the pending data > write operations to the pendrive. It's safe to remove it only when the it's > icon disappear (i.e., when it's automatically unmounted). ---- that was it...OP has stated that it wasn't being automatically mounted but rather a forced mount via entry in fstab Craig
