WHY !!! ?

[Jim]

On 09/15/2013 06:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/15/2013 09:27 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
I have but one thing to say to that statement "Amen" .
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