On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 10:41 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > you did make sure to umount it on Linux/BSD before removing it right? > > And if you hibernate the machine(any os) and remove the usb device > while hibernated the filesystem may not be consistent, it has to be > explicitly unmounted on both windows and fedora before removal so > that all data is fully written. In my opinion, when hibernating or suspending the system really NEEDS to flush/sync drive cases before going down. *It* ought to be doing that itself, as part of the process. Not you having to manually do it, first. When a system is shut down that way, it's highly likely that any plugged in drives may get unplugged - people expect to be able to do that. And USB devices may lose power when their host is in standby modes, and may not come back to life in a ready-to-use state. So a resuming system needs to be able to reset external drive interfaces, and cope with devices self-resetting, before doing anything else with them. > In the past it was suggested to not use NTFS as a transfer drive and > to use something simpler like FAT32 as that fs's format is better > documented and simpler than NTFS. That may or may not still be the > case. I don't know if that's still so, but I do know that in many cases it's not suitable to use such basic file systems. You may need the metadata that goes along with files regarding permissions and ownership. -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.22-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 19 18:58:25 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
