On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 08:59 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > When I attach an external USB hard drive, each partition on the drive is > mounted separately, under /media. > > When I want to remove the drive, what's the simplest way to be sure that > all cached data is written/cleared, so that I can safely remove the drive? > > I've been using eject /media/* but that only happens to work because > nothing else is mounted there. > > Suggestions? > > <Joe > You should see icons for the mounted partitions. They can be clicked on and unmounted. Once they are unmounted you can remove the drive. The light will not go off as it does in Windows. You can check they are unmounted by the mount command or the fact that the icons disappear. -- ======================================================================= Woman on Street: Sir, you are drunk; very, very drunk. Winston Churchill: Madame, you are ugly; very, very ugly. I shall be sober in the morning. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
