[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive will not mount in openSUSE 11,0

[terry]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I am a , oh here is that word , "Maverick" ,  but I do not unmount
> USB drives , the unmount function is just to make sure that data is fully
> written to the drive . If the USB device and KDE app or Gnome app indicates
> it is finished writing , then it is ok to remove the drive with out
> unmounting .  Been doing it for years , in Linux and Winders both with no
> loss of data .
>


You can also just cut the power to your computer, but I highly recommend a
proper shutdown procedure.



> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:16 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sometimes USB drives mount automatically, but they do not un-mount
>> automatically. We *must* un-mount USB drives before unplugging.
>> If we do not un-mount a USB drive before unplugging it, we run the risk of
>> corrupting the file system on that USB drive.
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