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> References: <b9b400cd0512190338u6ce2abf0p89efe8b4f3ed2a0b@mail.gmail.com> <43A6A2E0.9050109@free.fr> <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. -- 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 | +=========================================================================+
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