On 4/14/07, Miloska <miloska at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > or should i do an "right click - eject drive" in ubuntu first , unplug
> the
> > cable and then power down?
>> i would do that way, 'eject drive' is the umount what you are looking for
>
i'm just curious about this - Windows users wouldn't probably know about
"unmounting" drives and would just turn off the power switch. Do they risk
badly corrupting the drive or does a USB drive work kind of differently to
your bog standard one?
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