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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Most modern operating systems employ file system caches to speed up reading/writing data from/to storage volumes. If you just yank the drive, then the system does not have an opportunity to write any unwritten data sitting in the cache to the volume before it is unmounted.
Hence, file system corruption is a very real possibility if you don’t advise the system that you’re done with the volume.
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