Gareth Eason wrote:
> Bernhard Rohrer wrote:
> [snip]
>> I simply want to be able to plug and unplug without having to think
>> further. sorry for trying to achieve windows-like behaviour ;) As for
>> wear and tear on the flash, why?
>> Hi,
>> Just as in Windows - to eject a USB device safely you must tell the OS
> that you are about to remove it. In Ubuntu, you right click the mounted
> device on your desktop (or in a Nautilus window) and select Eject. This
> performs a sync and umount, allowing you to safely remove the device.
>Interestingly enough though this only needs to be done with
NTFS-formatted USB drives, as FAT32 doesn't support lazy write and can
indeed be plugged out safely. But to be quite honest, This is not the
discussion I wanted to enter ;)
anybody have an idea where to change that?
cheers
Bernhard
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