On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:03:30PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > And even better - it *magically* goes away when you pull it out (nice to > know if you have stupid users...) I am not so sure if you will be so pleased if your _data_ will also *magically* go away if you were writing to this stick and pulled it out without unmounting it first. You may also end up with a corrupted file system on that stick for additional attractions. In case you do not know 'umount' is flushing buffers. If you were not writing to removable media then most likely nothing bad will happen. I was already pondering a bit to myself some time ago if encouraging an uninformed behaviour is such great move. Unfortunately only CDs are locking drive doors and those are really safe here. A long time ago a floppy on a NeXT machine would not allow you to grab a mounted floppy other than with a help of a straightened paper clip. :-) Michal