Lenny AMD64. When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to complete. I assume there is some form of caching going on.
To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it (up to 15 minutes!) to complete before unmounting the drive. Is there any way to prevent the caching from occuring? I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device without having to wait for a delayed write. I have looked at the mount man page, but it says the sync option (which I think is what I want) is only available for ext2/3 and ufs file systems. -Ped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
