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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:35:21 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:56:27 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows?
> [...]
> I would like to have a command that makes the disk/USB port physically
> inaccessible, so at the end of the script a user cannot access the
> disk again.

If the USB disk is accessed via a device that is listed when
you do

	# camcontrol devlist

you should be able to use camcontrol's eject or stop command
on that device, usually /dev/da[0-9].


-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
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