thanks fedora

[Tanmoy Chatterjee]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Angus MacGyver
<macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 01:02 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:57:36PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>            .........snip.........
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> ...snip
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>> The things you mentioned are all cosmetic but while we're talking about
>> that, for one example, the change in the right click options on usb
>> drivesfrom "unmount" to "safely remove drive" is pure M$.
>
>
> Maybe - but, and this was a welcome change for me...
> If you have a USB device with multiple partitions, the umount option
> only unmouted the one you right clicked on...
>
> "safely remove" on the other hand, does them *ALL* if if can.
> That from my perspective is a Good Thing.
>
> The number of times I did the umount option for one slice, and forgot
> the other(s) and had to do an fsck before they'd remount when I plugged
> the drive in next time is something I am pleased I don't have to do any

Insertion of my PD in an USB port, always starts with a glowing tiny
lamp inside the PD which implies the device is active. Now in the
windows I used to select the "safely remove" option for PD. Then the
light in the PD gets off and I remove it manually from the port. After
my use of the PD in cyber-cafe it gets infected with some viruses and
Trozans. Then even after selecting safely remove the light in the PD
doesn't get off, which give me the suspicion of active viruses in the
back-ground.
After I had started using UBUNTU 9.04, I used clamav to remove all the
viruses from the PD and then select the "UNMOUNT" option to remove the
PD. But in this case I found the light in the PD was still glowing,
though there is no viruses in the PD anymore.

With Fedora 13 and with both the option of 'unmount' and 'safely
remove' - I choose the later and the light in the PD gets off and I
remove the PD as usual.
I don't know if there is any difference between the two methods or any
one of them is more serious than the other.