Firstly, it calls the sync command to ensure that any disk writes are complete before proceeding. I think I have now created such a bash script that has the desired effect. This led me to revisit the idea of a bash script that would wait for any cached data to be written to the USB drive before indicating that it was indeed safe to remove the external drive. Furthermore, the safe-to-remove message does not occur in Linux Mint 18.3 (Sylvia) – perhaps because it didn’t really work? ![]() ![]() However, I sometimes noticed that, even though this message was displayed, the red LED on my USB flash drive was still flashing, indicating that disk activity was still underway such that it wasn’t necessarily safe to pull the plug. In a previous post ( Safely removing a USB flash drive) I noted that, when removing an external USB drive, Linux Mint 18.2 (Sonya) provided a message indicating that “It is now safe to remove the drive”.
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