On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Robert NicholsrnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net wrote:
If there is a significant amount of data that must be written to the device, then you get the pop ups. If the device can immediately be made ready to remove, then there are no messages. In either case, when the icon disappears from the desktop the device is safe to remove. The situation gets really messy if the device has more than one partition mounted. You can unmount one partition and get a "safe to remove" message while another partition is still mounted. I believe that's one reason MS Windows doesn't support multiple partitions on these devices.
That makes sense. It does seem like the notice comes up when I've moved larger files. Thanks -- though I like using the 'sync' command anyhow. It kind of puts my mind at ease.