safely remove USB hard drive

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:54 +0000, g wrote:
> if those of you who claim to not have had problems wish to chance
> losing data, go ahead and 'eject', 'umount' or what ever. it is your
> data that you are chancing loss of. 

It's been my experience that it will not unmount until it's finished
being used.  You'll be told so, and it will remain mounted.  If you're
silly enough to yank out media that's mounted, that's your own fault.

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