Il giorno mer, 23/12/2009 alle 08.46 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto: > AFAIK in modern Linux systems running "sync" doesn't actually guarantee > anything beyond what "umount" is already doing. > > poc The umount command does the "sync" so if you run "umount /media/My_External_HDD" and then you get back to the shell, you are safe to remove the HDD. I've experienced file corruption and oddity with reiserfs on a 400Gb HDD, nothing important was lost, but it was quite annoying. Which FS are you using on the HDD? Pietro -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines