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Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
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<pre wrap="">--- Bogus Zaba <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bogzab@blueyonder.co.uk"><bogzab@blueyonder.co.uk></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is there a "correct" / safe way to remove a USB
drive from the system?
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In Unix (Linux, etc):
Correct way to attach: mount
Correct way to remove: umount
if you do not mount, you cannot access your drive
(hard disk, cd/dvd, USB drive, camera, etc).
If you do not umount before physical removal, you risk
data corruptions.
Sagara
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Thanks, that's very clear and more or less what I thought. What
confuses the issue a bit is that our<br>
nice friendly desktop (KDE) detects when a drive is plugged in and runs
the "mount" for you (I think). So the naive user (me) does not know
that "mount" has been run and does not realise that "umount" needs to
be done.<br>
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btw, do you have to be root to run mount and umount. I think I have
been told before now "you can't do this" when I've tried to umount.<br>
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Bogus<br>
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