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   Dan Purgert to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire   
   17 Mar 25 08:57:11   
   
   From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2025-03-15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:02:15 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> For a period of time, one of the Windows OSes decided to stop   
   >> listing filesystems that did not need "Safely Remove" behavior, but   
   >> the changes to that OS may have been reversed.   
   >   
   > That’s the thing. Windows is full of assumptions as to which kinds of   
   > devices are allowed to have which kinds of filesystems installed on them,   
   > which kinds are to be hot-pluggable and which are not.   
   >   
   > For example, are you allowed to put NTFS on a hot-pluggable volume?   
   > Somehow, I don’t think so.   
      
   Practically every USB stick in existence would like to disagree.   
      
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