Using USB keys in Linux
Don’t physically remove a USB key without unmounting or ejecting it first I have destroyed my fair share of USB keys in the past by prematurely removing the key before it was safe to do so. I remember being particularly irked when my $70CDN 1GB Kingston flash drive stopped working. I think at the time I swore I’d never buy Kingston crap again, but I’m not sure it was ever Kingston’s fault (to be fair, USB keys were fairly new on the market back then). Like a lot of people, I assumed you could just save a document, or copy your files over, and then pull the USB drive out. Maybe this was just a bad habit I picked up from my days of removing floppy disks (they never got corrupted either)? ...