Linux. MX Linux and Unmounting USBs

[DPool]

I'm posting this here since it probably has more to do with Linux that with MX Linux but, considering I was using the MX Linux feature to make a USB of my snapshot, maybe this topic is close enough!

So, yeah, I'd made an .iso snapshot file of my complete and customized installation of MX-19 and then I put my USB drive in and used MX Live USB Maker to accomplish that task. All went well...no indications of any problem.

However, being only slightly less new to Linux than I am to MX Linux, when done I did *not* follow the protocol of Unmounting the USB drive....I simply pulled it out. So my question is: is this roughly analogous to the Windows situation where "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" is the *preferred* step to take but, in real life, all God's children simply insert and remove USB drives all the time with generally no consequences?

Of course, the real way for me to test this would be to see if that saved snapshot of my installation will re-install....but I don't have the nerve (nor, frankly, the time to rebuild)!

[PondLife]

Found this which explains the detail

https://lifehacker.com/do-i-really-need ... th-5863810

Short answer it always best to unmount the usb especially as MX has made it easy with a usb eject button in the notification area.

[dolphin_oracle]

The OP did luck out in this case however...the live-usb-maker system leaves the devices unmounted when its done, so no harm done in this scenario.

and yes, its analagous, but dangerous even on windows. I've seen plenty of device corruption. In fact, I just spent several hours recovering data off a corrupted USB where the owner said "I didn't know I needed to eject it. I just pull it out!". This is one reason that MX ships with the umounter tool running in the system tray by default (roughly where windows has theirs).

of course, I used a live MX usb to do the recovery.

[asqwerth]

Err...I have to admit that for USB sticks/drives, I just pull them out.

I do unmount my NAS storage after I'm done, though.

[DPool]

This is one reason that MX ships with the umounter tool running in the system tray by default (roughly where windows has theirs).

Thanks for pointing that out! I actually don't think I'd noticed that.