safely remove USB hard drive

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:02 +0000, g wrote:
> i can not say for usb drives, etc, but i do know that i unmounted a
> floppy drive one time and even tho knoq showed files were written to
> disk. later, when disk was mount to retrieve files, they were not
> there. 

How long did you wait before ejecting the disk?  Umounting a floppy is a
much slower thing to finish than a USB drive.

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