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Can't delete flash drive icon on desktop

Asked by Dan

I used a flash drive and now i am done with it, but the icon is still on my desktop.
I want to delete it permanently, but if i try to delete it an error box comes up and it says: The specific location is not Supported.
If I plug in the flash drive to create a location, another icon appears.

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#1

You have to right-click on it and click "Unmount Volume". Then you can "safely remove it."

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Dan (llamachese) said : 		#2

That doesn't work. an error message comes up that says: Unable to Unmount

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

Try eject etc

There is a force mount command but is there a force unmount?

Good luck trying to find it
Regards from
Tom

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Dan (llamachese) said : 		#4

After looking, i found a force unmount for Wine but not for what i am trying to do

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

mount

copy and paste the result here

Thank you

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Dan (llamachese) said : 		#6

/dev/sda4 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/ABBEY'S type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1001,utf8,umask=077,flush)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/dan/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=dan)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/ABBEY'S_ type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1001,utf8,umask=077,flush)

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#7

Open a terminal and type:

umount /media/ABBEY'S

and

umount /media/ABBEY'S_

Please report here...

Thank you

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Dan (llamachese) said : 		#8

It says: Command not found

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#9

Please be sure to type

umount <space> /media/ABBEY'S

And please take care: umount is the lower of UMOUNT

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Dan (llamachese) said : 		#10

it says:
umount: /media/ABBEYS
umount /media/ABBEYs_ is not mounted (according to mtab)

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Best Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said : 		#11

I had situations where there were broken partitions on my flash drives and it was impossible to unmount in the ususal way. What I did was simply force a shutdown of the computer and restarted. It was a pain though, because it wouldn't even let me shutdown in the beginning, had to do the "press quit button for 5 sec trick".

Not sure if this helps you.

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Dan (llamachese) said : 		#12

Thanks
I restarted my computer and now the icon on my desktop is gone.

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Dan (llamachese) said : 		#13

Thanks Bernhard, that solved my question.