"Mario Lobo" <mlobo_at_digiart.art.br> writes: > That IS true ! but like you said, "most cases" <> "all cases". Once, on a > company I was doing work at, I clicked on "Safely Remove Hardware" and it > said "can´t do it. device busy", although there was (apparently) nothing > using any files from the stick. I yanked it out anyway. result: the 3 > files I edited from the stick were gone :(. Since I don´t know when I am > gonna hit a case that doesn´t belong to "most", I always try to remember > to unmount (i.e. Safely Remove Hardware) the stick before unplugging it. Always a good idea - but my point was that Windows's "safely remove hardware" feature should not be construed as an excuse for FreeBSD to hang or crash when you remove a disk or memory stick. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Wed Oct 14 2009 - 18:34:53 UTC
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