WHY !!! ?

[Ian Malone]

On 16 September 2013 12:34, Patrick Lists <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 09/16/2013 01:04 PM, Tim wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sam Varshavchik:
>>>>
>>>> Do you explicitly unmount your flash drives, before yanking them
>>>> out.
>>>>
>> Jim:
>>>
>>> I have to admit that is the one thing I don't do.
>>
>>
>> Well, there's your problem, then... (quite probably, highly likely).
>> And, regarding an older message, being "new" is no guarantee of being
>> good.
>
>
> Afaik if you unmount it in Nautilus (Gnome Desktop) in the left column by
> clicking on the kinda downwards pointing arrow tip next to its name then it
> flushes data before unmounting. You can also use the 'sync' command on the
> cli (do it multiple times in a row just to make sure).
>

I'm a bit paranoid about this now as I have previously had damaged
flash drives and those with LEDs have occasionally continued
indicating data transfer after the gui has reported it's safe to
unmount.

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