July 6, 201016 yr I always wondered about the difference between windows "remove a drive" and "Linux remove a drive". My interest was peaked when Ubuntu desktop offers a "Safely remove drive" option as well. The typical way to remove a USB HDD would be to umount it and then power it off. With windows and Ubuntu desktop it goes one stage further and suspends the drive as well. You can see and hear this clearly by the LED stopping and the sound of the drive obviously spinning down. I like this so reading more i found http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.html There seems to be countless discussions about this all over the place with no definitive answer. There also bizarrely seems to be scant documentation of how to do this Linux wide via the console. Anyone got any thoughts?
July 6, 201016 yr Long time ago I would just mount the drive and umount the drive. Who would of thought it was more complicated than that. LOL Appearently it is.
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