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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:15:55 +0800
From:      Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To:        Thomas Linton <th.linton@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ivan Roth <ivan.roth@free.fr>
Subject:   Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick
Message-ID:  <43A7BDBB.1020103@alphaque.com>
In-Reply-To: <b9b400cd0512191544l147e9d5dyfdf284b85baa540b@mail.gmail.com>
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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.

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