On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:01:13 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well lets put it this way: if you rip the drive off the computer while > writing to it and without unmounting it first, you *will* be cursing > regardless of whether it's USB or SATA, or Linux or Doze. Hint KDE: > right-click on drive icon, select "safely remove". Hint XP: tell him to > use Linux ;) if you're really paranoid, then the command sync followed by manually umounting the device is a pretty indestructable belt and braces approach. You'll be able to tell the really ancient of us by the number of times they issue the sync command (: Steve
