usb drive corrupt

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 5:02 pm, David Hummel wrote:
> No, please use umount first.  Not doing so could potentially get you
> right back into the same situation.  umount ensures that there are no
> open files on the device, and that any filesystem buffers are flushed.
David,
This used to be important, but it is not any longer, but it is always a good 
practice. 
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