On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 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.
You are absolutely correct. But I trust the icons anyway. I do this
because a basic computer user, just coming to Linux would not go look
at mtab or whatever. They would trust the icons. If I cannot
successfully use a distro in a way my non-geek friends and family
would, I cannot recommend that they use it.
So I have to test it. And report any problems back to the distro.
Alan
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