Can I please umount my usb device?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sun Mar 20 11:44:32 CST 2005


On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:37:48PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2005, 18:25 +0100 schrieb Joel Dimbernat:
> > USB disks should not be unplugged without being unmounted.
> why ? they are mounted with the sync option, there is no use for an
> extra unmount.

The sync option is a no-op on FAT filesystems, which are the most common in
use on USB devices.

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 - mdz



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