On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 13:50 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > Perhaps in days gone by: my OS prior to Wheezy -- Fedora 12 -- > > was like that. Anything USB had to be mounted/unmounted manually. > > What a pain. And if you unplugged without unmounting . . . Yes, > > things could break. But with Wheezy which I've been using for 3+ > > years have had no problems with just plug/unplug. The only > > precaution is to check the drive activity light isn't flickering. > > Just because you didn't lose data doesn't mean it's safe. All systems > are known to use caching, and GNOME frequently informs me, after > having asked to unmount my key, that I shouldn't unplug it until it > has finished to write data on it.
Yes, I know about caching, but on my system read/writes to removable devices are almost instantaneous. So, there's been no problems. However, I did write my on udev rule to do the mounting/unmounting, and this was after reseaching expert advice on how to do it properly. But as with any advice, you should do what's best for you. > Additionally, I don't have any LED on this drive, which makes it even > more dangerous. Then my method won't work well for you. B