From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 3/15/2025 9:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:29:40 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> Now, the Windows Disk Management view of the thing. Total screwup,   
   >> but can still be ejected. It is in the Safely Remove meu.   
   >   
   > Would you trust it to “safely remove” something it cannot even understand   
   > properly in the first place?   
   >   
      
   Yes, because anything with an erroneous or weird determination,   
   does not get mounted. The partitions are not being listed in   
   the upper portion of Disk Management, and that area is kinda the   
   equivalent of /etc/mtab for listing things.   
      
   Since the device isn't really mounted (that I could determine!),   
   using the Safely Remove is more ceremony than with a purpose.   
   But part of trying it, of using the control, is to see if the OS   
   is in a weird state with respect to the device.   
      
   Disk Management also has an Offline control for storage devices.   
   And that can be used, if you discover a bug in something, and   
   need a second method for "making a storage device safe".   
      
      Paul   
      
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