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I have a usb powered hard disk. So far it works great (I formatted it with ext3) but I'm wondering if unmounting it before unplugging is the only thing I should take care of, or there could be other things to do? I'm not speaking about performance, but only to make sure that I don't loose data or kill the hard disk.
Mm... interesting. Could I omit that if I add the sync option when I mount the disk? It looks like sync will sync(hronize?) all the devices... which I'm not sure is "desirable".
Thank you for the info anyway, I'll look for more information (man sync is not very "illustrative")
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