Let me ask you this: why would you think you shouldn’t have to? It’s an external drive like any other. The file system has to be quiesced and unmoved cleanly.
It’s 2023. Would it be too outlandish to hope or dream that information systems have reached a state where resilience and self-repair make up for sudden and impromptu hardware disconnects?
Let me ask you this: why would you think you shouldn’t have to? It’s an external drive like any other. The file system has to be quiesced and unmoved cleanly.
It’s 2023. Would it be too outlandish to hope or dream that information systems have reached a state where resilience and self-repair make up for sudden and impromptu hardware disconnects?
Well in theory journaling file systems should be able to repair but nothing is perfect. Do you really want to gamble with a backup?