safely remove USB hard drive

[Robin Laing]

g wrote:
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> ?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.
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> 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.
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> so, any time before i unmount anything, i give a couple syncs to ensure
> that data is written.
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> tc,hago.
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> g

There was a bug in Fedora that would remove the icon from the desktop 
while the device was still syncing.  I had a USB device that didn't have 
any lights on it and I totally corrupted the FS when this occurred.

It could have been the same bug for the floppy as well.  I only tested 
on USB.

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Robin Laing