Let me eject my external HDD, you fucking piece of shit!! Seriously, is Linux just as stupid as Windows is in this regard? Nothing was using it, no programs were running, no i/o operations indicated, I even closed explorer, nothing. Not even the reader heads moving noise, just the disks were spinning but even when it stopped spinning them (power saver) it still refused to eject it. I had to shut off my computer to eject it properly.
Windows. Eject external HDD
Hudson Young
Jonathan Russell
NSA still wanted to scan it, that's why.
Leo Robinson
>actually ejecting a drive
who does this.
Matthew Morris
people who like their filesystems consistent
William Reyes
Hah, good point
And that's how you get your drive corrupted.
Jonathan Nguyen
>Linux
umount -f
Doesn't mean it's safe though. But you could do the following to find the task.
lsof | grep '/dev/sda1'
pkill target_process
umount /dev/sda1
Lincoln Anderson
>lsof | grep '/dev/sda1'
you can just do "lsof /dev/sda1"
Daniel Adams
>I expect OS to kill programs that I started
Bad OS!
Josiah Reed
I only copied something with explorer. I even closed explorer and it still refused to eject the HDD.
Brody Flores
>Seriously, is Linux just as stupid as Windows is in this regard?
>Nothing was using it, no programs were running, no i/o operations indicated, I even closed explorer, nothing
If it's really that, then no.
You'll at most be waiting for a really short while until the buffer / caches are flushed and it'll unmount.
Jonathan Smith
Usually it's the thumb nail generation bullshit locking it, or app compat
Aiden Stewart
No one cares that you are female. Stop attention whoring. Also this thread belongs in /sqt/.
Evan Lewis
Just wait until wannacry is done using the disk, then you'll be able to eject it :^)
Jordan Williams
Yeah, well, I waited until it went to power saver, disks stopped spinning. Windows still could not eject it.
Carson Stewart
>he doesn't eject his C: drive on a regular basis
Benjamin Miller
it's possible to have windows running off a disk not mounted as "c:"
Kevin Cooper
Why do you bother? Finally a filepicker with thumbnails!
Brody Barnes
Only newbs.
Kevin Jackson
/thred
Jacob Ortiz
>log out
>log in
>eject
Hudson Rivera
No.
Brandon Foster
yes it is, i've done it before
John Fisher
same, not this user. I did it by accident once. Installed vista with a system reserved and a local disk partition and somehow vista chose D: for the %SYSTEMDRIVE% variable.
Jason Campbell
i did mine on purpose
i was ricing the absolute fuck out of XP (years ago), changing basically everything
even "windows", "program files" and "documents and settings" can be renamed