safely remove USB hard drive

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, g wrote:

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> Joe Smith wrote:
>> When I want to remove the drive, what's the simplest way to be sure that
>> all cached data is written/cleared, so that I can safely remove the drive?
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> see 'man sync'.

How is that better then simply umounting the thing?

Regards,

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