On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Robert Nichols<rnicholsNOSPAM at 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. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3