Yank USB stick - destroy system disk...

[flyingfsck]

Howdy,

This is something I have seen twice now. It happened once to me on Fedora 15, and once to a co-worker on Ubuntu 11.04:
1. Copy a large amount of data to a USB stick.
2. Forget what you are doing and remove the stick while the system is writing.
3. The system then damages the hard disk rendering the machine unbootable, requiring a re-install.

I really don't think that should ever happen. There is something awfully wrong in the file system management.

Comments?

Cheers,

F.

[jpollard]

That should not happen.

I've done the same thing, but not seen anything like this. On my system (running F14) the copy hangs, and I'll get some errors (if I wait long enough). If I just plug it back in, then things appear to just resume writing.