How do I safely remove a USB hard drive

[tau1963]

Hi. I'm running Salix 13.37 Fluxbox 64bit. It's running well on my machine and I want to install it on 2 more computers that my kids use. However, they use their USB MP3 players, USB external hard drives and digital cameras a lot. I can unmount the filesystems on these devices but I haven't found an easy way to power down the devices before removing. My kids are 10 and 7 so any method will need to be simple. Thanks for your help.

[gapan]

You don't need to power down the device. If the filesystem is unmounted, it's safe to remove the device.