How to safty unplug a USB Stick

[Thomas Linton]

Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to
actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux
there is also a way to safety remove -power off-  a USB stick.

On 12/19/05, Ivan Roth <ivan.roth at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Thomas Linton wrote:
> > My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the
> USB
> > stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try "camcontrol stop da0"
> or
> > "camcontrol eject da0"  it stays on.
> >
> > Under Linux the "eject" command turns the LED (Power) off.
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> I am not really sure about this but isn't umount your key enough ?
>
> If not, I am interested in the solution cause I only mount/unmount my
> key. No trouble at this point.
>
> Regards, Ivan.
>
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