Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do if external hard drive isn't unmounted properly?

2010-05-16 Thread Sean Miller
As far as I know the problem would only arise if you were writing to the hard drive when it was disconnected. In which case I would imagine that the solution would be fsck. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] What to do if external hard drive isn't unmounted properly?

2010-05-16 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Hi, people. This is a preventative question, since it hasn't happened yet. I have an external hard drive connected to my computer by USB. Unlike the computer it does not have battery power to fall back on if mains power is interrupted. I always unmount the hard drive by right-clicking on its deskto

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-16 Thread Anton Piatek
On 15 May 2010 14:56, Rob Beard wrote: > On 14/05/10 12:18, Samuel Toogood wrote: >> First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been >> lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. >> >> I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if >> package