<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid20050320174432.GX17070@alcor.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:37:48PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2005, 18:25 +0100 schrieb Joel Dimbernat:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">USB disks should not be unplugged without being unmounted.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">why ? they are mounted with the sync option, there is no use for an
extra unmount.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
The sync option is a no-op on FAT filesystems, which are the most common in
use on USB devices.
</pre>
</blockquote>
And by not unmounting a filesystem properly, chances are you corrupt
it. It wouldn't be the first time that I lost a bunch of data that way.<br>
</body>
</html>