On 24 Nov 2004 at 14h11, Raj wrote:

Hi, 

> - Why is it taking a long time to unmount ?

It's syncing last writes

> - Is it safe to remove the pen drive from it's slot when the umount is still in
>   progress ?? ( I tried this the first time & maybe lucky me, the
> files copied were fine )

Lucky you :) If your key is fat or vfat, you could try these two patches 
and mount your USB key with -o sync option, your feedback interests me. 
It should make the copies to key slower, but the umount immediate.

-- 
Colin