Just check it yourself before pulling the drive. If you have lots of volumes mounted: mount | grep sdN On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Simon McNair <simonmcnair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thanks Jeff. It just seems like a hit and miss solution (no way of knowing > all data has been written to and that the device has been unmounted from all > filesystems). I kinda expected some kind of 'it is safe to remove /dev/sdb' > in dmesg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html