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The Monday 2007-03-12 at 16:46 +0100, LLLActive@ wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 12:47 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> > You probably unplugged it before it was ready. Do you perchance, mount it 
> > "nosync", for faster access? If you do, that is the danger.
> > 
> You may be right there. I removed the usb unintentionally when it was
> still mounted. Have to make sure the mount is always sync for these
> USB's. It's too easy to unplug inadvertently ...
> 
> :-)

And filesystems like reiserfs, xfs (and probably ext3) are very vulnerable 
in those situations. They keep things in memory, and when they do get 
trashed, they do it royally...

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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