on Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> > Why issue a 'sync' instead of just unmounting and waiting until the >> > thing stops flashing?
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:24:22AM -0900, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> sync blocks, so you can tell from the command line when the job is done. Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So does umount. (I see you said that below, but I wanted to underline > it again; it looks like Rudolfo overlooked it) After "umount" > completes, it's safe to remove the stick. I didn't overlook this, but: 1) in my experience, some time ago I used to extract the pendrive after `umount' completes and the device often got corrupted. When I asked this list for help to recover it, someone suggested to apply the `sync' option to the mount option: since then I put that option in my fstab, until this thread advised not to do so; 2) I measured the time, and it seems to me that the `sync' command takes a little longer than `umount' to stop. For these two reasons I presume that it is not safe to extract the device just after `umounting' and without the sync option in fstab. What do you think? Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
