WHY !!! ?

[Joe Zeff]

On 09/15/2013 09:27 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 15.09.2013 18:03, schrieb Jim:
>> On 09/14/2013 08:11 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> Do you explicitly unmount your flash drives, before yanking them out.
>> I have to admit that is the one thing I don't do
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> so answering with your subject in normal letters: why?
>

Yes.  This reminds me of when I was doing tech support back when Win95 
was the "latest and greatest."  I told a caller to reboot his computer 
and his response was, "OK, I just pressed the reset button."  I can only 
hope that by the time his box came back up that he understood why that's 
not a Good Idea.  People, Linux expects you to unmount drives before you 
remove them for a number of Very Good Reasons, and if you don't, you can 
expect trouble.  All I can suggest now is that the OP install testdisk 
and hope he can recover the data.