Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Friday 31 December 2004 16:48, Tom Felker wrote:
>On Friday 31 December 2004 12:22 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> There are some times when the usual 5 second flush schedule should
>> be tossed out the window, and the data written immediately.  A
>> quickly unpluggable usb memory dongle is a prime candidate to bite
>> the user precisely where it hurts.  Floppies also fit this same
>> scenario, I don't know at the times I've written an image with dd,
>> got up out of my chair and went to the machine and slapped the
>> eject button to discover to my horror, that when my hand came away
>> from the button with disk in hand, the frigging access led was now
>> on that wasn't when I tapped the button.
>
>For that you should add "sync" as an option when mounting the
> filesystem, in which case writes won't return until the data has
> actually been written.  man mount doesn't mention that being
> implemented for FAT, though - is that accurate, and if so,
> shouldn't it be?

Don't know about vfat, which is how I mount a floppy, but I just put 
that in the options list in /etc/fstab & will test it the next time I 
need to sneakernet something small around here.  Many thanks for what 
might be a valuable bit of info!

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