Re: Fwd: undelete bookmark folder

cool... thanks for that little tidbit about adding sync to fstab. However,
how do I fix it now w/o a restart?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:

> From: Michael Havens
> > Oh HO! I figured it out. I removed the drive w/o umount first. I
> > just did it again and figured it out. How do I fix that?
>
> Don't remove a disk without umounting the filesystems that live there. If
> you
> do that, you could cause filesystem corruption. This is because writes are
> not necessarily done synchronously, so if you unplug a disk without
> umounting
> it, it might have have half of a file written. You could add "sync" to the
> fstab line, which will make all writes synchronous, but that'll make the
> disk
> slower.
>
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