On 3/5/07, Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
actually... its usually "safe" to remove a device... in windows, linux, osx... as long as the device isn't being "read". though, its always better to err on the side of caution.
Or more importantly, as long as the computer's not "writing" data on it. Extra caution specially on big files, because most modern OS's cache the data. so you don't actually see any progress bar any more. "unmounting" in Linux and "safely removing" in windows is actually an offshoot of corrupted diskettes which were removed from the drive before the cache was completely written by the OS. -- Regards, Danny Ching _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
