Dražen Lučanin [2013-04-29 9:38 -0000]:
> And another issue from my point of view that Norbert forgot to mention -
> when your external hard drive has several partitions (which I think is
> quite common nowadays, with multi-TB sizes), there is no more an option to
> remove the whole device with a single action. This used to be the "safely
> remove drive" option.
That's not the case here, though. eject is supposed to unmount all
partitions and make all /dev/sdaN go away.
Dražen Lučanin [2013-04-29 9:38 -0000]:
> And another issue from my point of view that Norbert forgot to mention -
> when your external hard drive has several partitions (which I think is
> quite common nowadays, with multi-TB sizes), there is no more an option to
> remove the whole device with a single action. This used to be the "safely
> remove drive" option.
That's not the case here, though. eject is supposed to unmount all
partitions and make all /dev/sdaN go away.