Hi,

thank you all for the replies. Crystal, what command would I use to
detach a USB drive? I tried eject, but it doesn't seem to work with
the kind of devices I have.

Best,
Vitor

Em qua., 8 de fev. de 2023 às 09:55, Crystal Kolipe
<kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> escreveu:
>
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 09:27:08AM -0300, vitmau...@gmail.com wrote:
> > quick and very basic question: is syncing and umounting a USB drive
> > enough to safely remove it or should I execute other commands before
> > unplugging these devices?
>
> Unless you are doing something 'unusual' (*), then just unmounting
> it is fine, you don't even need to run sync.
>
> (*) Such as having it encrypted as a softraid device, in which case
>     you'd need to detach that after unmounting it.  Or writing to
>     the raw device directly with tar, for example.

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