On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:52 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Primm wrote:
Hi everyone
Under KDE in 10.2 I can 'safely remove' a disk by right clicking upon its icon. Is there a command line version to do the same? In any case what does it actually do? Can't I just pull the plug and walk away with it?
First, that's only a concern if you've written to it. Also, it's safe, if it's been a long time after writing to it.
Generally, under SUSE 10, the USB stick is mounted with sync. You can just pull it out once the write has been completed. It is also the reason, writing to the USB stick, is so slow and possibly reducing the life of the USB stick. This is caused by sync updating the FAT table all the time. Since the number of writes are limited to the number times, you could psosibly wear out the FAT area.
This is apparently only true for FAT16, not FAT32 en EXT. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org