System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

How to Remove a Hot-Pluggable USB Mass Storage Device Without vold Running

This procedure describes how to remove a hot-pluggable USB device without vold running.

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Stop any active applications that are using the device.

  3. Remove the hot-pluggable USB device.

    1. Unmount the device.


      # umount /mount-point
      
    2. Remove the device.