[ale] safely stop external USB drive from Linux

[jjj863 at gmail.com (Jerry Yu)]

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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