Graceful Shutdown of USB drives.

[Michael Torrie]

On 06/04/2010 11:09 AM, Von Fugal wrote:
> Just a thought, but maybe the difference with "Safely remove drive"
> (besides that it spins down) is that it unmounts all filesystems on the
> device, making it safe to remove the device as a whole, rather than
> unmounting what may or may not be the last FS left mounted on the
> device.

Very good point.  I think you've hit it.