[Sussex] USB Flash Drive

[Stephen Williams]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:43 +0100, Alan F wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:10:19PM +0100, John Thompson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This is a simple question:-
> > 
> > When I want to disconnect a USB flash drive or a digital camera, is it 
> > alright just to unplug it - or should I do somthing first?
> >
> It's a good idea to umount the volume on the USB pen before unplugging
> it. There are some things like writing file inodes (information about
> them) which aren't quite done sometimes, especially if you've just
> written to it. My old creative MP3 player often refused to boot if I
> unplugged it before unmounting, and the only way to fix was to format
> it.

I agree with this. None of my USB drives likes simply being unplugged,
and running fsck on a 160Gb USB2 drive takes forever. Unmount first.

Steve Williams.

> 
> Hope this helps,
> Alan
> 
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