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Should I unmount a USB drive before unplugging it?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202617381 views
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When you unplug an USB drive without unmounting, your OS warns you about how dreadful could be such operation for your devices (I'm on OSX). I usually follow the advice, unmounting before unplugging, but it happened many times (thousands) that, at the end of my tasks, I just unplugged (Hd storage, …

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Fix for: Should I unmount a USB drive before unplugging it?

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Either you're lucky to never have had corrupted data, or you're unlucky to never had noticed your data was corrupted. When you perform an action that should write on a disk, most operating systems put the write operation into a queue. From time to t…

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