On Jul 24, 2013 4:13 PM, "Bill Davidsen" <david...@tmr.com> wrote: > > Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> On 07/24/2013 11:57 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: >>> >>> I saw this once, with a portable hard drive. It happened when I had the >>> drive plugged in while booting, and unplugged it later. It didn't realize >>> that it was okay for the drive to be unplugged afterwards. I didn't check if >>> there is an existing bug report. >> >> >> Did you always unmount the drive before unplugging it? If not, that might >> explain the warnings. > > > Depending on the filesystem type, NOT unmounting it might leave it in some dirty state which could be anything from annoying but trivial to actual data loss. I unmount mine as well, but not using GNOME I can't say what "eject" does, I thought that was for media like CD. > > -- > Bill Davidsen <david...@tmr.com> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > > --
The issue has happened to me on many occasions early on in my Linux endeavour. I'm sure you can find it again through the settings in X today, if we've added that, but it is pretty-much vital practice to unmount the device before unplugging; however, on my machine today I hear a double-click when the USB disconnects, and a different tone double-click when it connects /re-connects. Given this I still make a practice of unmounting before disconnecting it.
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