Hi. On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 07:04:08PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > unmount, Safely Remove Drive, and Eject? > > [...] For a hard disk partition, only the first is given. > > To eject a hard disk you need the undocumented privileges CAP_DESTROY_HARDWARE > and CAP_ENDANGER_BYSTANDERS.
Please. Surely you heard of SATA/SAS hotplug? Or SATA rack? It's true that it's usually impossible to *eject* the harddrive. Does not mean that it's impossible to replace a harddrive without powering down. Reco