On Sunday 27 November 2005 20:42, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 11/27/05, Grant Coady <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It leaves me with a little distrust of linux' handling of non-locked
> > removable media (as opposed to lockable media like a zipdisk or cdrom).
> >
> > Grant.
>
> Under Windows, if a 1394 drive is unplugged without unmounting, it you
> get a pop up dialog on screen telling you that data may be lost, etc.
> while under any of the main environments I've tried under Linux
> (Gnome, KDE, fluxbox) there are no such messages to the user. I have
> not investigated log files very deeply, other than to say that dmesg
> will show the drive going away but doesn't say it was a problem.
>
> I realize it's probably 100x more difficult to do this under Linux, at
> least at the gui level, but I agree with your main point that my trust
> factor is just a bit lower here.
No, WIndows says that because it is unable to mount a partition as sync,
unlike Linux. Linux Desktop Environments simply don't tell the user because
no data is lost if they unplug the media.
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