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Subject: Re: "Safely" removing USB hard drive
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On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 01:36, Remington L. wrote:
> Can this be accomplished in FBSD 5.1? Or is unmounting and simply 
> removing it safe?


I use one here at work on a linux machine, and umounting it works just
fine with no problems.  Haven't tried it on my FBSD machine yet.
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Douglas G. Phillips
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