Unmount usb drive without login in the WD Windows Application Control Panel

avdstege · March 23, 2015, 10:46am

Hello

Is there a a good umount command to disconnect the USB drive like the WD Windows Control panel application is doing ?

And then disconnect the USB disk ?

Because i want to umount it via the SSH

login with SSH
start umount command
disconnect the usb drive

Thanks all

jamalaya · March 23, 2015, 11:16am

the USB drive is mounted under

/var/media/

umount that.

avdstege · March 23, 2015, 11:51am

Thanks for quick response

I will try that and give result here in the board

Greetings

TonyPh12345 · March 23, 2015, 12:45pm

Be careful, though… umount will only unmount it if there’s no active file handles to the USB drive.

Since the GUI may be interacting with the drive, it might not allow it. And even if it does, and the un-mount is graceful, the UI will likely not be notified that the drive is being disconnected, so it might trigger undesirable behavior in the UI.

avdstege · March 23, 2015, 1:33pm

Hello reason for the umount by ssh is that i miss a app like the Windows Application to do umount usb drive.

But i will take care of it.

Greetings

jamalaya · March 23, 2015, 2:46pm

You can eject the drive from Windows WD icon, WD Quick View (bottom right of Windows app bar) if you installed it.

cpt_paranoia · March 23, 2015, 6:53pm

You can also unmount a USB drive from the Dashboard. Click on the USB symbol in the top right of the page, then click the ‘eject’ icon (a rather blurry triangle on top of a bar).

This isn’t mentioned in the user manual…