how to "safely remove hardware" with cygwin ?

[Igor Peshansky]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Tom Hall wrote:

> Is there a cygwin command line utility that will perform the function
> that Windows does when you "safely remove hardware" - like before
> unplugging a USB drive ?

Not in the main distribution, but in the past I got both
http://www.hoopyfrood.net/DevEject and
http://www.heise.de/ct/03/16/links/208.shtml to work with minor
modifications...  I've been meaning to package them, but haven't gotten a
round tuit yet.
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_	    pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!)
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		old name: Igor Pechtchanski
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.  That is the whole
Torah; the rest is commentary.  Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/