Really? Why do you say that? I mean, I agree it should, but does it
really? :)
I tried using sync on vfat probably around 2.4.7, and it appeared that
the vfat filesystem driver totally ignored that directive.
If a reliable source says there's a chance it'll work, I'll try it
again. I'm just a little reluctant to destroy my vfat partitions if it
doesn't...
- Scott
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 11:24, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> "sync" should work for all filesystems.
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:57:59AM -0700, Jacek Pliszka wrote:
> > On 14 Aug 2002, Scott Bronson wrote:
> >
> > > However, I must manually enter the mount/unmount commands after I plug
> > > it in.
> >
> > Solutions:
> >
> > 1. Add icon for mounting unmounting: Drive Mount Appplet in GNOME
> > does the work for my Linux-unexperienced friends
> >
> > 2. You can mount automatically with hotplug or similar but you can not
> > umount automatically on removal - buffers have to be flushed so
> > you must ALWAYS umount before removal.
> > WARNING: I am not sure about the next statement, please someone correct me
> > The exception is a filesystem
> > mounted with sync" flag but this works for ext2/ext3 and ufs only.
> >
> > BR,
> >
> > Jacek
> >
> >
> >
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