On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:52 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: > James Knott wrote: > > Primm wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone > >> > >> Under KDE in 10.2 I can 'safely remove' a disk by right clicking upon its > >> icon. Is there a command line version to do the same? In any case what > >> does > >> it actually do? Can't I just pull the plug and walk away with it? > >> > >> > >> > > > > First, that's only a concern if you've written to it. Also, it's safe, > > if it's been a long time after writing to it. > > > > > Generally, under SUSE 10, the USB stick is mounted with sync. You can > just pull it out once the write has been completed. It is also the > reason, writing to the USB stick, is so slow and possibly reducing the > life of the USB stick. This is caused by sync updating the FAT table all > the time. Since the number of writes are limited to the number times, > you could psosibly wear out the FAT area.
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