Safely Remove a USB Flash drive

I have a 8G USB stick that's formatted with NTFS file system. I always
need to use "Safely Remove Harware" *TWICE*, even when I had made sure
that no process was using the USB stick. The first "Safely Remove" would
always ended as error.

Why?

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"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have a 8G USB stick that's formatted with NTFS file system. I always
> need to use "Safely Remove Harware" *TWICE*, even when I had made sure
> that no process was using the USB stick. The first "Safely Remove" would
> always ended as error.
>
> Why?
>
> --
> @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.
> / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
> /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 8.04.1) Linux 2.6.26.5
> ^ ^ 18:02:01 up 2 days 2:52 2 users load average: 1.03 1.06 1.04
> ? ? (CSSA):
> http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...ub_addressesa/


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You don't have to go through a special procedure to remove a USB anything.
Just pull the plug.

Ed Cregger