weird removable media behavior

[Robin Laing]

Michael Klinosky wrote:
> Mikkel:
>> A couple of questions - are you unmounting the drive before
>> unplugging it?
> 
> No. I considered doing that, but then thought, 'USB is hot-pluggable, so 
> that should be auto-magic.'
> 
> But, seems like it's not (hence the vestige device).
> 
The problem with just removing a USB device is "time" to clear the 
cache.  I have ran into an issue with FC4 and it removing the icon for 
the device before all the writes were complete.  I trashed the file 
system.  I reported it and there was a fix that showed a pop-up when the 
device was safe to be removed.

If your USB device has a light on it, try this test.  Copy a large file 
to the device and watch the light to see how long before it starts the 
write and how long it takes for the write to complete.

Even Windows requires you to umnount USB drives so the cache can also be 
cleared.



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