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Safe removal of USB storage - suggestion for a future LL release - m654321 - 05-04-2016

As in Windows OS, and at least one distro that I know of (Zorin 9), there is an option to mouse-click on for safe removal of USB storage devices.

For example in Zorin 9, at the file manager window, I right-click on the icon for the USB device concerned and a drop-down box will appear - one of the options in this box is safely remove hardware.  When I click on this option the device activity ceases (as you would expect), reflected  by it's blue indicator light going off.

In LL2.8 the options in the drop-down box mentioned above, include unmount and/or eject - either one separately , or unmount followed by eject,  don't appear to stop activity of my external USB drive, i.e. the USB device's blue light stays on. To make LL newbie-proof could we have this safely remove hardware option at some future date?  Obviously I don't want to remove a storage device until it is turned off as I may lose any data still being written...

In the meantime is there a terminal command to safely remove hardware?

Thanks
Mike

Re: Safe removal of USB storage - suggestion for a future LL release - firenice03 - 05-04-2016

If in Thunar (filer manager) there is an "eject" icon next to the mounted drive - I typically use this....

Or if in terminal... the command is "umount" followed by the disk (sdx)
basic command..
Code:
umount sdx

doing a
Code:
df -h
will list the mounted drives/partitions

Hope this helps in the meantime...

The way drives mount/eject reminds me how a MAC would..
- Not saying better, but familiar..  Wink


Re: Safe removal of USB storage - suggestion for a future LL release - m654321 - 05-05-2016

Quote:umount sdx

... in my case 'umount sdd1' - firenice03, unfortunately this doesn't turn off it's activity - the external drive's blue light is still on and it says it's not mounted.

I really would like a 'safely remove storage device' option in the file manager as in Zorin OS 9 - at the risk of sounding 'ageist' it would make removing USB devices 'granny-proof'...

Mike