Comments on: Removable Media Context Menus in Windows XP vs Mac OS X http://tntluoma.com/technology/removable-media-context-menus-in-windows-xp-vs-mac-os-x/ Stuff I've Written Down Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:52:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mneptok http://tntluoma.com/technology/removable-media-context-menus-in-windows-xp-vs-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-1393 mneptok Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:03:23 +0000 http://tntluoma.com/?p=550#comment-1393 <p>Removing media without ejecting it is very dangerous. Ejecting means the host OS (be it Windows, OSX, or a Linux) completes any read/write routines and cleanly dismounts the drive.</p> <p>Just yanking the thing out risks doing so in the middle of a filesystem operation, which quite possible could corrupt the filesystem on that piece of media.</p> <p>"Eject" exists in Windows, OSX, and Linux for a reason. Use it.</p> Removing media without ejecting it is very dangerous. Ejecting means the host OS (be it Windows, OSX, or a Linux) completes any read/write routines and cleanly dismounts the drive.

Just yanking the thing out risks doing so in the middle of a filesystem operation, which quite possible could corrupt the filesystem on that piece of media.

“Eject” exists in Windows, OSX, and Linux for a reason. Use it.

]]> By: J. King http://tntluoma.com/technology/removable-media-context-menus-in-windows-xp-vs-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 J. King Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:14:54 +0000 http://tntluoma.com/?p=550#comment-1392 <p>I confess I'm a little confused, Tim; I -never- eject media via software; I just unplug it, pull it out, etc. For me both features are entirely useless. Hell, everything except "Properties" (and "Open Command Window Here", on occasion) is.</p> <p>Though I have remarked to myself on more than one occasion that having "Format" and "Eject" right by each other (and within the same sub-section, no less!) is extremely poor design, I suspect it's not an issue for many people.</p> <p>(TjL writes: Windows XP and OS X will complain if a disk is removed without being unmounted properly. At least in my experience. Is this not true for everyone?)</p> I confess I’m a little confused, Tim; I -never- eject media via software; I just unplug it, pull it out, etc. For me both features are entirely useless. Hell, everything except “Properties” (and “Open Command Window Here”, on occasion) is.

Though I have remarked to myself on more than one occasion that having “Format” and “Eject” right by each other (and within the same sub-section, no less!) is extremely poor design, I suspect it’s not an issue for many people.

(TjL writes: Windows XP and OS X will complain if a disk is removed without being unmounted properly. At least in my experience. Is this not true for everyone?)

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