On 16 September 2013 12:34, Patrick Lists <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/16/2013 01:04 PM, Tim wrote: >> >> >> 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. > > > Afaik if you unmount it in Nautilus (Gnome Desktop) in the left column by > clicking on the kinda downwards pointing arrow tip next to its name then it > flushes data before unmounting. You can also use the 'sync' command on the > cli (do it multiple times in a row just to make sure). > I'm a bit paranoid about this now as I have previously had damaged flash drives and those with LEDs have occasionally continued indicating data transfer after the gui has reported it's safe to unmount. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- 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
