Savely remove external USB Drive
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:48 am
Usually it should be safe to remove it after unmounting it. But if you want to spin down (power off) the drive like it happens under macOS or Windows you have to do following AFTER unmounting it (or exporting the zpool)
There he shows you some entries, my usb drive is usually the last one (for example my SanDisk USB Stick):
now simply this command does the job:
That's it. It is nice to see my USB HDD going down and control light is blinking,
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# usbconfig list
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ugen1.3: <SanDisk Ultra> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (224mA)
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# sudo usbconfig ugen1.3 power_off