[ale] safely stop external USB drive from Linux

Jerry Yu jjj863 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 15:20:20 EST 2006


this doesn't stop device from receiving eletric power from the port.
windows's 'safe stop' would cause the power indicator to go off on my
kingstong flash drive.

On 11/9/06, Michael B. Trausch <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 09:42 -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:
>
> does anyone know of any magic USB utility command to use under Linux to
> 'safely' stop an external USB hard drive (regular 3.5" drive)?
> On my linux desktop, I used to just 'umount /media/biggie && modprobe -r
> usb-mass-storage' or alike.  RHAS 4 (CentOS 4).
>
>
> I just use umount to unmount the filesystem on the device; that forces the
> filesystem to be sync'd, and then the filesystem is unmounted.  So long as
> all of the filesystems on the devices are unmounted, it should be fine.
>
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