On Sun, 6 Sep 2015, Tom Horsley wrote:
That's probably because the data is just in memory and
hasn't
been flushed to the actual USB device yet. If you do manage
to kill the umount, you'll probably have corrupted data on
the USB drive.
Sometimes I get a "drive busy" message from umount,
which then fails.
In that case, a file has usually been open.
Does umount regard this as a different situation?
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