On Jul 25, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:32:14AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>> Why not just unmount the stick before disconnecting it?
>>
>
> No modern operating system should have the user do things like this  
> unless
> he/she has a specific reason for it.  The users don't even know what
> mounting a disk means.

And, in fact, if you use the eject(1) command on NetBSD, the user  
doesn't have to know that the file system is being unmounted.

-- thorpej