On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:30:46 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > Even if you didn't, in my understanding, all that could cause (normally) > is a broken file system. The effects will usually depends on whatever > was happening at the moment, and at the fs you are using.
As he was only reading from the drive, I doubt he could have corrupted the filesystem, let alone the partition table. > Some mount > options can influence this as well. To palliate the effects of a > catastrophic plug off without having umounted before you can use the > -osync mount option, which will enable synchronous writes (making your > device seems slower, because writes will no longer be deferred/cached > for a later oportunity). However, these increase writes to the device, particularly to the FAT, shortening the life of the drive. I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter. -- Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them
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