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Old 10-29-2015, 09:59 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The previous poster is saying (if I understand him correctly) that he simply doesn't know how to safely dismount a USB drive from his tablet, not that he doesn't understand the necessity of doing so.
Well, that and that it is a unix thing to do.

Apologies if I was unclear what I was pointing out is that it is more a feature of disk drives than the OS.

Also, that waiting enough time for the write cache to flush itself is a usually-safe alternative.
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