From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 08:17:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751A016A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:17:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E6B943D53 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:17:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 77854 invoked by uid 0); 20 Dec 2005 08:17:49 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2005 08:17:49 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jBK8FtLR071616; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:15:55 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <43A7BDBB.1020103@alphaque.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:15:55 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20051026 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Linton References: <43A6A2E0.9050109@free.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ivan Roth Subject: Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:17:57 -0000 On 12/20/05 07:44 Thomas Linton said the following: > Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to > actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux > there is also a way to safety remove -power off- a USB stick. i've just unmounted and then pulled out various usb sticks, CF cards and sony memory sticks and have not seen any filesystem problems when i stick them back in again. never had to use camcontrol eject. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+