On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 19:22 +0000, g wrote: > to administer a system, you should know all commands > and what they do. so, if you know what umount is and you know what > sync is, then you should know to sync before umount. This is the purpose of "safely remove". For the typical desktop user, unmounting will always imply syncing, so the two are bundled together. In the old days there weren't any desktops as such, and the sysadmin was presumed to know what he was doing. Remember this was at a time when only root could call mount/unmount and people didn't walk around with pendrives in their pockets. The first PCs didn't even have the concept of mounting, which is why the user had to know the names of the physical disks (c:, a:, whatever). You just stuck the floppy in and ejected it when the light went off. This cruft is still visible in the terminology used in Windows. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
