Unmounting/Ejecting removable media
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Dear Debian Users,
I was contemplating today the fact that I know several people who have
scrambled various removable disks and thumb drives by failing
to "unmount" or "eject" before removing them.
Mostly this has happened in Windows, not because there isn't
an "eject" feature, but through ignorance or accident.
This happens, I am told, because of unwritten buffers which are
emptied only when the device is unmounted or ejected.
Why?
Removable media are already a class unto themselves, so why aren't
they marked something like "sync immediately"? It's not like a USB
drive is being used as multiple fast file accesses, benefiting from
buffering in RAM. These are repositories, places where whole files
are written or read and then the media removed.
It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say "sync
immediately" or "do not buffer", so that when the drive was inactive
it could be yanked without danger of corruption.
Any suggestions?
Curt-
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The Magistrate, enrobed in taxes, condemns the thief in stolen rags.
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