I have a USB external hard drive (ntsf) that mounts and works just fine. Is there a way to unmount the drive without shutting down the system?
So you would normally open up a terminal session, like Konsole and enter the following commands:
su -
password:
umount /dev/**sda1**
Where sda1 was the actual device name of your ntfs partition. Since this is an example, I do not know what your partitions are called, but you can find this out by running YaST / System / Partitioner and press the Yes button to the first question. Just look at the setup and close the program once you have determined the partition name shown on the “Available Storage on YourComputerName” window, Device column.
Thank You,
Hello RadioEar,
When using KDE you can open sysinfo:/ and right-click on the hard drive and select unmount.
Or you can start dolphin, on the right it has places including mounted drives.
Right click on one of them and select “Safely remove”.
If you’re using GNOME I’m sorry but I don’t know how to do this under GNOME through a GUI.
There’s also a third option and that’s trough the command line.
Run this command:
umount /dev/sdXx
Replace the sdXx with the device of your hard drive.
If you don’t know the device name then you can replace “/dev/sdXx” with <path>/<to>/<mount point>.
To make sure you’ve got the right device/mount point you can run df.
This will output all the current mounted drives.
Good luck!
RadioEar wrote:
> I have a USB external hard drive (ntsf) that mounts and works just fine.
> Is there a way to unmount the drive without shutting down the system?
or (two other have answered, i guess what they say works but), maybe
this works (also):
-click on My Computer
-see the USB drive?
-right click on it, and maybe you see Safe Removal, or something like
that…click it, and see if the USB drive doesn’t disappear…if so,
it is unmounted…
-or maybe you see “unmount” if so, click it…
–
DenverD
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