NO WAIT YOU NEED TO EJECT THE DRIVE BEFORE REMOVING MY USB

That powers down the USB port. It's so that your device doesn't get fried inadvertently. Or the port. Also it waits until the buffers are flushed so that the data is not corrupted.

ext4 doesn't have this problem

please don't use rape terms mkay?

kek

>never ever unmount usb drives
>receive two brand new usb drives from a client to transfer files to
>figure ill unmount because important stuff
>remove and insert again to check it works
>both drives are completely dead

Just werks

Just use format instead of eject, it's even safer.

You might have missed the whole electric damage hazard part.

Bravo, how did you manage to fuck up such a simple task?

He uses arch

CD ROMs don't have this problem.

You literally have to eject a CD-ROM you dip.

No. No, it doesn't. Unmounting a drive doesn't power down its interface.

You push one (1) physical button and it gets ejected without problem.
Enjoy your USB being corrupted, you mong.

>press button
>software unmounts it before physically opening the tray

ZFS does not have this problem.

>not blowing up the powergrid when you need to shut down your PC

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>software is faster

Enjoy data corruption due to cache not being flushed and bad sectors due to reading heads being forced to retract while you move your HDD, nrmie cuck NPC.

>not going to the circuit breaker and shutting down the whole house before bed

>Zip Disquette
>Cache
>Reading heads
>HDD

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You can only do that by opening up the panel and grabbing on to the bus bar to use your body as a secure grounding unit to safely shut off the power

namefag

Thanks, I didn't notice.

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You can't fry anything by pulling from a powered usb port. They are designed to stay powered up permanently. Powering them down is only used for power saving on laptops, I doubt windows turns them off when you unmount them. If that was the case your phone would fry every time you plug the charger.

Actually someone has killed one of my USB mass storage devices by pulling it from the computer after I did a powerpoint. Powerpoint must have been autosaving some shit or whatever when that happened , pretty shitty desu.

You can probably recover it by completely formatting it using DD and writing a new partition table to it. I've had this happen to me before with a corrupted Linux ISO.

>sorry for bothering you about safely ejecting so much
>i finally got a new USB drive that doesnt need to be ejected
>try it out

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>not connecting lightning rod to your PC and turning it off only when lightning hits the rod

Hey, you dropped this.

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Shouldn't, but knowing how much of a mess OSes are, I don't want to risk it

But on most HDDs unmounting also shuts down the disk motor and park the heads, while keeping the controller on. It's safer than just cutting its power while everything runs and moves, even if the result is the same

kek

ROM ... Read Only Memory

>That powers down the USB port. It's so that your device doesn't get fried inadvertently. Or the port. Also it waits until the buffers are flushed so that the data is not corrupted.

That's the correct response.

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>tfw computer always used to hang forever when trying to shut down
>started just flipping the power switch on the PSU instead
>did this for a decade with no problems

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It literally is a linux problem, though. Windows writes data to usb without letting it sit in the cache and if the progressbar is finished then the data is physically on the disk. Unlike in linux where it treats usb devices the same as internal drives and caches the data for decades while pretending to have finished the transfer in the UI. All distros that don't change udev rules to prevent that retardation belong in the trash.

>if the progressbar is finished then the data is physically on the disk

That's not true at all when it comes to USBs.

some retarded bug in windows 7 requires me to shut of the power when my computer ever enters sleep mode

>not transcending above and beyond the notion of "turning it off"

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just run 'sync' and unplug you cunt

Literally never unmounted a USB in my life and I've never had any issues with them. The chance of something bad happening is so ridiculously low its not even worth the hassle

This is a function of the HDD, not the interface.

thats a macfag problem

we are talking about usbs not hdd's
pressing "unmount" doesnt turn the usb port off.

that is an actual issue, so many times have i been transferring files to a usb or even SD card and the GUI would say its all done, then i would unplug it and everything would be fucked, or i would just run "sync" when it says its down and see its actually far from done.

wew the zoomer can read!

>not bombing the hoover dam to turn off your pc
Kys fagot