How to safty unplug a USB Stick

[Dinesh Nair]

On 12/20/05 07:44 Thomas Linton said the following:
> Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to
> actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux
> there is also a way to safety remove -power off-  a USB stick.

i've just unmounted and then pulled out various usb sticks, CF cards and 
sony memory sticks and have not seen any filesystem problems when i stick 
them back in again. never had to use camcontrol eject.

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