<< Knoppix is safe. It's the user practices that aren't. >>
<< Like it was suggested before, ALWAYS unmount your hard drives before you reboot. >>


Woops! Spoke too soon. Tried to unmount the drive and received an error message

" Could not unmount device. The reported error was: unmount/mnt/hda.1: device is busy"

I have closed all the sessions on the desktop. The drive is not being accessed
Is there such a thing as a 'force' command?

Ahhh, the actual command is umount. Did a 'umount /mnt/hda.1' in a terminal session and it reported the drive was already unmounted (even though the icon showed mounted),, did a shutdown and rebooted OK.

All is well in the Linux world.