Cannot open Drive Manager after Thumbdrive is busted

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I have been using a USB Thumbdrive on my pi 3 for many years now, and I see that it is busted. I can no longer modify anything in it anymore. It got write-protected status on all files. I tried format it on a Windows Machine, but it also said it is write-protected.

Anyway, I got all data from the USB Thumbdrive already, and then I removed the USB Thumbdrive, but then I see that DietPi still has a mounting directory for the thumbdrive in /mnt so I decided to go to DietPi-Drive_Manager to remove it.

But when I access the drive manager, all I got is a black blank screen and nothing else. If I press any key on keyboard, I got those weird character codes like in older programs. After I hit Ctrl+C, I have to wait for about a minute before DietPi becomes responsive and goes back to the terminal screen.

In this case, where can I tell DietPi to remove that directory? Is there a manual method instead?

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how long did you wait? At least it should timout after 90sec

Anyway you can remove the mount option within /etc/fstab and reboot your system

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I wait for more than a minute, I think, so yes, 90 seconds might be it.

Ok , I will try your suggestion.