On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: > I've successfully mounted the stick & copied a file onto it: > it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored.
For performance reasons a write-cache is used - changes to the filesystem aren't effected immediately. Issuing a 'sync' command or 'umount' will force the changes to be written immediately. > Also, 'df' continues to show it mounted after 'umount /dev/sdb1', > but deletes it after 'umount /z/usb' (the dir I mounted it under): > this seems a new distinction, as either have worked with other devices. Unmounting either the device or the mountpoint should be the same. Maybe you have unwittingly mounted the device twice? > I'm amazed how small the stick is: a spy could easily swallow it > (grin). The size of usb plug is the limiting factor. Look how small the micro-sd cards are! -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
