[clue-tech] USB drive unplugging.

[Keith Hellman]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:23:12PM -0600, David Anselmi wrote:
> How do I get the LED on my USB drive to go out before I unplug it 
> (Debian Sarge, FWIW)?
> 
> I used to plug in the drive and then run a script to load modules and 
> mount the drive.  Then that script would unmount the drive and remove 
> all the modules.  When I went to unplug the drive the LED was off, 
> cluing me that it was safe.
 
FWIW, I simply mount my flash drives with the sync and dirsync options.
When I'm ready to yank them I simply run sync(1) first.  I've never
had a problem with corruped filesystems.

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