On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:18, Fergus Wilde wrote:
As I understand it, if it mounts automagically, you don't have to unmount it.
That's right, you wait for activity to finish and then you can just pull the plug. SuSE will automatically see the disk is gone and then is quite happy. You're wasting your time trying to unmount manually, don't worry about it.
I've been doing this with CF and SD card readers for months now with no worries.
Ok, thanks for this advice. Do you think it would be ok even if the external disk has an ext2 file system on it? I have a Lacie external USB disk, which I use to backup my files, and I formatted it as ext2. I know that it gets mounted with the sync option, so in theory, all my data should be on the disk when the command completes, but I want to be sure.