Saturday, October 8, 2011

Eject flash drives and USB HDD easier

Ejecter in action
One of my small irritations it safely removing my flash drive.

The long way round goes Start > System Tools > Disk Utility
Click on the drive, then click on Unmount, then click on Safely remove.

Get ejector:
sudo apt-get install ejecter

You need to run it (it might autorun after I reboot or something) I need to check how to run programs at startup again...

Now, I am going to research this further - but Ejecter only unmounts the drive. It does not power it down as well. I am not sure if both are absolutely necessary, but I have lost data before by just unplugging a flash drive - so I will investigate.

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