Re: [wlug] Backups are your friend.

This primarily happens if you don't cleanly unmount the volume. Never unplug a USB mass storage device from a machine if you have just written to it, unless you unmount it cleanly (by running 'unmount /path/to/mountpoint' in a shell, right clicking on it and pressing 'eject' in nautilus or similar, or using Windows' unmount removable device option).

Yes I agree. I have had corruption once though even when I did do this... but I should have said you should always unmount also. Ian