Finalising a drive moves it to a consistent state, which enables the safe removal of media or safe shut down of the device. There are two types of finalisation defined by
in an eject media application - this application is launched by the user in order to safely remove the media
when the device is shut down.
This mode of finalisation can be used by an application to put the media into a consistent state after a period of device inactivity. This minimizes the risk of media corruption on its removal or sudden power loss.
Finalise a drive by calling
During drive finalisation, data is written to the media that indicates the drive is in a consistent state, after which no write operations are supposed to take place on the specified volume.
From v9.4. the API
The user of
Finalising a drive moves it to a consistent state, which enables the safe
+removal of media or safe shut down of the device. There are two types of finalisation
+defined by
in an eject media application +- this application is launched by the user in order to safely remove the media
when the device is shut +down.
This mode +of finalisation can be used by an application to put the media into a consistent +state after a period of device inactivity. This minimizes the risk of media +corruption on its removal or sudden power loss.
finalize a drive by calling
During drive finalisation, data is written to the media that indicates +the drive is in a consistent state, after which no write operations are supposed +to take place on the specified volume.
+From v9.4. the API
The user of