umounting a usbkey causes reboot

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-10-10 12:57, Gregory Nou <gregorynou at altern.org> wrote:
> hi,
>
> when I made a umount -f on my usbkey, I experienced a reboot.
>
> I did this :
> # mount /dev/da0 /mnt
> unplugged the usbkey, add a file from another computer, replugged it

You have to unmount the file system before unplugging the USB device.

> # ls
> the new files did not appear
> # umount -f /dev/da0
> instant reboot...

This is a known problem.  Unmount the USB device before unplugging it
and all should be fine.