Sam Varshavchik: >> Do you explicitly unmount your flash drives, before yanking them >> out. > > Jim: > I have to admit that is the one thing I don't do. Well, there's your problem, then... (quite probably, highly likely). And, regarding an older message, being "new" is no guarantee of being good. I don't know whether Linux will flush the cache after a few seconds, and give you some grace against yanking the drive out inappropriately, or whether it leaves it until you unmount, but it's not something I'd rely on. Having said that, if I had the option, I'd configure things so that USB drives get flushed within moments of a save. I used to turn off write buffering, where I had a choice. It made things slower, though slightly safer. But it was years ago since I played with that, and I don't recall the details of what I was doing it on, nor how. I wish that sort of thing was the default, as USB flash drives, or even USB-connected hard drives, are quite likely to get unplugged unceremoniously, whether accidentally, or by users not realising it's a bad thing to do. And external drives with power supplies have another point of failure - the power supplies being unplugged. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
