Using /bin/eject with USB flash drives

Author:
Source

Following a wide-ranging thread on
misc@
with the subject
Safely remove USB drive,
Crystal Kolipe wrote an
article
about how
OpenBSD
handles removable media, centered around the
eject(1) command,
also known as mt(1).

The article leads in,

Does issuing an eject command to a USB flash drive make it spontaneously fly across the room?

Follow the link to Using /bin/eject with USB flash drives to read the whole thing.

Read more