safely remove USB hard drive

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

g wrote:
> ?ukasz Jagie??o wrote:
>> Maybe not better, because it's sync when you umount, but when you
>> hot-plug on/off usb sync is faster and easier.
> 
> 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.
> 
Did you wait for the light to go out on the drive before removing 
the floppy? I have had it take a while before the umount command 
returned because it was flushing buffers to disk.

Mikkel
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