Safely remove a USB drive

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Hi there,

I have a external USB hard drive that I use for storage and often connect USB flash drives to the RPi, but I can't figure out how to eject them safely. Googling found results that said "go to System > File Manager, then select the drive, open the context menu and choose 'remove safely'".

But the drive doesn't show up in the file manager. The only place I know to find it is by browsing the Root filesystem /media/xxxxxx and this is treated as a normal folder, there is no remove option.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what I'm missing so that I can eject drives safely?

Much thanks!