safely remove USB hard drive

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:34:13 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> That's interesting. Once or twice I removed a pendrive after the icon
> went away, only to get a beep from the system. Luckily I didn't lose any
> data, and it seems to have been fixed now, but it's always nice to have
> an explanation for these things.

I believe it was in FC6 that there was a long discussion about how you can 
tell whether the usb device is umounted.  My defences are two-fold - I always 
wait a few moments after it says that the device is removed, and wherever 
possible I run gkrellm with sdx showing, so that I can see a couple of 
seconds of clear after the last flush.

Anne
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