Messages in this thread | | | From | Patrick McFarland <> | Subject | Re: umount | Date | Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:01:07 -0500 |
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On Sunday 27 November 2005 20:42, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 11/27/05, Grant Coady <grant_lkml@dodo.com.au> wrote: > > It leaves me with a little distrust of linux' handling of non-locked > > removable media (as opposed to lockable media like a zipdisk or cdrom). > > > > Grant. > > Under Windows, if a 1394 drive is unplugged without unmounting, it you > get a pop up dialog on screen telling you that data may be lost, etc. > while under any of the main environments I've tried under Linux > (Gnome, KDE, fluxbox) there are no such messages to the user. I have > not investigated log files very deeply, other than to say that dmesg > will show the drive going away but doesn't say it was a problem. > > I realize it's probably 100x more difficult to do this under Linux, at > least at the gui level, but I agree with your main point that my trust > factor is just a bit lower here.
No, WIndows says that because it is unable to mount a partition as sync, unlike Linux. Linux Desktop Environments simply don't tell the user because no data is lost if they unplug the media.
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