if you are now a happy bunny, please go back to your first post and edit useing the box to the left of the title and select solved
Yes, that does work and I'm learning to remember to do that. Better than just yanking it out!! lolif using Mint the USB drive should show on the desktop, you can right-click on This and select eject [some distributions it may say safely remove drive]
What's the string for the fstab file friend?you can set up auto-mounting on detect or on system boot. I dont use mint but I set it up so all of my external usb drive auto-mount at boot by modifying fstab
oh, it's mint. for mint I think you can modify automount options in Disks - alternately, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/FstabWhat's the string for the fstab file friend?