On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:29:23 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > I am using XFCE and Thunar as file manager, and when I try to unmount > an external disk (usb connected), it takes ages to unmount. Any ideas? If there is lots of data waiting to be flushed to the disk it will have to finish writing all of it before it can umount. Did you just copy loads of stuff to it? Also if the disk has been sitting around long enough to spin down (which lots of usb disks do), it will have to spin up again before it can unmount. If it is something to do with the file manager, you could try running an umount command as root in a terminal and see if it is faster. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
