Hans van der Merwe wrote: > 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. >> > > This is apparently only true for FAT16, not FAT32 en EXT. > > > > E-Mail disclaimer: > http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm > Under 10.0 I have a 300 Gbyte disk drive.formatted with xfs. It still mounts with the sync option.
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