Re: safely remove USB hard drive

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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.
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