External HD wont dismount
 

I have a 100gb external USB hard drive. I downloaded about 50gb of files to it. I had transmission downloading a torrent to it but it was taking a long time so I stopped it about 2 hours ago.

I closed transmission a half hour ago and tried to dismount the drive. Now I'm getting "Writing data. To prevent data loss wait until this has finished before removing or disconnecting media". It's been sitting at this for about half an hour now and I need the drive! I have no idea what it's writing but it shouldnt be writing anything...there wasnt anything that was being transfered to/from the drive. How do I safely dismount this thing? It seems like the "safe dismount" is stuck

Basically fresh installation of 10.04. Any help whatsoever is greatly appreciated!!

You have tried right-clicking the icon for the drive on the desktop and it has no effect?

You cannot unmount from the desktop by right clicking the icon if the drive was manually mounted.

Assuming your device is labeled /dev/sdb1 mounted at /media/external, you can either unmount using the device or the mount point:

or:

W00ly,

This is a double post of your existing thread here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...smount-819660/
which already has many suggestions.

Please don't double-post, it's very annoying.

Reported for merging /closure

I tried both of those. Someone in another forum suggested shutting down so I shutdown with the icon in ubuntu. It closed all programs and stopped at the wallpaper. I was able to SSH into the system and I tried killing processes that might be associated with it. Also tried sync. Neither worked. So I issued "sudo shutdown now". Finally got the system to go off. After rebooting I could see the files appeared to be in tact.

However when i unmounted (cleanly this time) and connected the drive to my windows PC, windows would not mount the drive nor could I see any data! It appears something has been corrupted :\ Any suggestions on how to fix my drive?

Sorry for double posting...it's just time is somewhat of an issue so I was hoping to get it seen as much as possible. I also posted over at ubuntuforums :\

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.

Continue here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...smount-819660/