On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 16:16, Ron Blizzard<rb4centos at gmail.com> wrote: >> One thing that is odd -- sometimes when I unmount the flash drive, I >> get a notice on the bottom of the screen that says 1) Wait until the >> files are written to the flash and 2) It is now safe to remove the >> flash drive. But I only get these notices some of the time -- maybe >> two out of ten times. > > I've seen that, apparently it will only show you the popups in the > case where there are uncommitted writes that have to be flushed before > the unmount finishes. > > I agree that it is strange that it does not behave like this every > time, it would certainly be less worrisome to always show the "it is > now safe..." message. > >> At any rate, I'm now unmounting and then waiting for a while before >> removing the flash (just in case it is still writing). Thanks. > > Same here! I also think I'll issue the 'sync' command a few times while the flash drive or removable hard drive are still there -- after I've moved files one way or the other. It "feels" kind of like issuing a "Save" command in a word processor. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3