Timeline for Eject USB drives / eject command
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| Sep 11, 2019 at 9:49 | comment | added | ZioByte | Big, fat WARNING: This is NOT completely true. If you do not eject it underlying USB Device Driver may still (try to) write AFTER umount has returned. This can be clearly seen if drive has a status LED. Yanking the USB stick right after umount terminates is RECIPE FOR DISASTER. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 6:51 | comment | added | EkriirkE | If I'm ever unsure, I sync before yanking it out | |
| Oct 27, 2012 at 21:53 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Oct 27, 2012 at 22:34 | |||||
| Oct 5, 2012 at 15:03 | comment | added | James Moore | This assumes that the device is mounted in the first place, and that carries along another big set of assumptions (it's got a filesystem that you can read, for one). Imagine that you're erasing a bunch of external drives - they probably never get mounted. eject is the right thing to use. | |
| Apr 14, 2012 at 0:11 | vote | accept | Joe Barr | ||
| Apr 2, 2012 at 0:51 | comment | added | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | You can do it, but it usually doesn't do very much if anything at all. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 0:49 | comment | added | Joe Barr | Hmm, I saw eject hdd as in /dev/sda somewhere. I guess the reference was wrong then. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 0:40 | history | answered | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | CC BY-SA 3.0 |