safely remove USB hard drive

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:38 +0000, g wrote:
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> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > It's an item on the right-click menu of the KDE desktop icons for
> > mounted devices (I presume also in Gnome). Dolphin also has it as a
> > button. From a Shell I guess 'eject' is the nearest equivalent.
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> under mandriva 2k8.0, kde 3.5.7, auto mount enabled, right clicking icon offers
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> 	   open | copy | open with file size viewer | open with...
> 	unmount | open medium system folder | eject | properties
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> one more reason i need to get fedora up.
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> thanks for enlightening me.

Eject is the one you want. I think the terminology varies according to
whether the medium can be physically ejectd or not. If it's a CD my
system says Eject, if it's a pendrive it says "Safely remove".

poc