why is there a “safe to eject” option for USB sticks?

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After you’ve transfered all your data on/off, why cant you simply take out the stick? where’s the harm?

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While the other comments are right but the safe ejection option is far less needed now than it used to be. The safe eject option was necessary in the past because back in the day the file systems on the disks weren’t journaling. Without the ability to track pending changes via journaling it was actually possible to corrupt the entire drive if you pulled it at the wrong time.

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