On Sunday 08 April 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > Bill Anderson wrote: > > I noticed that the default elevator applies to everything, including > > USB memory sticks. I thought the block device driver would change the > > I/O scheduler to something more appropriate for a memory stick, such > > as the noop scheduler. > > While we're on the subject, I've also noticed that memory sticks are no > longer mounted with synchronous writes in 10.2. I very nearly found > this out the hard way, by losing data. I now make sure I issue a 'sync' > command before unplugging my memory stick.
I always get a desktop icon in KDE which has a Safe Remove option. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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