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Originally Posted by tompe
You probably always should eject both disks (if you have an SD cars also) before removing the cable. I nearly never mount the disk with the system on under Linux since I mount all disks manually and I have never had a problem.
The Cybook seems to be very sensitive for file corruptions and it is probably a mistake in the overall design to put for the system important files on the disks that are mounted by the user. And if it is books that gets corrupted and causes the problem there is a serious problem with their code if a corrupt file causes the continious reboot of the cybook.
Since this is a problem that a lot of people seem to have they would do themselves a favour by putting instructions on how to recover on the web page. I am tempted to ask for the recovery procedure now and saying that since the are so slow in responding I need to have the procedure available if things go wrong. I cannot wait days for them to respond.
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One of the problems with these devices is they are forced to use the FAT or FAT32 file systems in order to be usable as a "flash drive" by older Windows OSes. If they were switched to using a more modern file system, something designed to handle incorrect attachments and reattachments, these problems would not occur nearly as often. Examples of better file systems include ZFS, ReiserFS, and even NTFS. All of these choices would be more resilient to file corruption, especially ZFS. But because we have the legacy of Windows ME, 98, 95, 3.11, 3.1, 3.0, and DOS to support, we cannot let go of ancient filesystems. So these devices, including digital cameras and ebook readers, need to support the lowest common denominator - FAT / FAT32.
Sorry about the OT post, I just needed to vent.
Although, perhaps in a newer firmware update, Bookeen, Sony, and the rest could create a system which had two partitions - one using a more modern filesystem for the boot / OS partition, and one using FAT/FAT32 for the user mountable book drive.