On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Alan Dayley wrote:

> Admittedly I have not looked at mtab during these steps to see when
> "true" unmounting has occurred.  I am trusting the icons and menus to
> tell me it's safe to unplug.  So maybe my experience doesn't help you
> much.  I have not had disk corruption following the above sequences.

To trust the icons to tell whether the drive is mounted or not is rolling 
the dice. One day you may roll snake eyes. Reread my post to see why.


-- 
Bob Holtzman
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