"Safely remove" USB stick

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 20:59 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> It's a little disappointing that the light does not go out on my USB
> stick,
> as it does in Windows when I click on Safely Remove.

If this worries you, try running "eject /dev/sdc1" (or whatever the
stick is mounted as) from a Shell. "eject /media/<disk name>" might also
work. AFAIK that should call the actual driver to disconnect the stick,
but YMMV of course.

poc