Eject External Hard Drive option gone

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In Thunar, the eject icon appears in every mounted drive
https://imgur.com/wDz0QWS.png
If sometimes it doesn’t. kill thunar, and open again. (this happens to me, I just close thunar and reopen)

eject will work, but will not really “finish the job” regarding USB rotating drives.

The best way to unplug a USB external hard-drive, after proper unmounting, is:

udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdX

or

udisks --detach /dev/sdX

This usually causes the drive to spin down gracefully.

Note: udisksctl might be a more “mainstream” tool, compared to udisks (the former is already installed on my Debian, the latter isn’t).

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