James Harrison <jamesaharrisonuk <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes: > When removing a USB key, I use:sync ; sync ; umount {/Path/to/USB/key}Sync > writes any data that's still buffered. Since kernel 2.6.20 umount guarantees 'sync' (for ntfs-3g mounts). Of course it can't hurt. Regards, Szaka -- http://ntfs-3g.org