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198 CHAPTER 12 MANAGING YOUR FILES In the case of floppy disks, memory cards, and other USB storage devices, you ll need to right-click the icon and select Unmount Volume. Then you can then unplug and/or remove the device. This also applies when you re removing a memory card from a card reader before pulling out the card from the reader, it needs to be unmounted. Note It s necessary to close any files that were open on the device before unmounting, and even close any file browser windows that were accessing the device. If you fail to unmount the device, Ubuntu will still believe the device is attached. This shouldn t cause too many problems, but it could crash any programs that were accessing the device. Formatting Floppies Formatting floppy disks isn t done in Nautilus. Instead, you must use a special program called Floppy Formatter. To start this program, click Applications . System Tools . Floppy Formatter. You ll see the program window shown in Figure 12-10. Figure 12-10. Formatting floppy disks is done using the Floppy Formatter tool. Floppy Formatter is similar to the disk-formatting tool in Windows, and most of the options are self-explanatory. If you intend to share the disk with Windows users, make sure DOS (FAT) is selected in the File System Type box (it s possible to format a floppy using Ubuntu s own ext2 file system format, but there s little to be gained by doing so).