On 9/4/06, Llywelyn Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having some trouble writing to removable USB disks. Although drag and drop > seems to work ie I can see and open the moved/copied file/directory, when I > try to open it in SUSE 10.1 it's not there, occasionally it will succeed in > copying to the disk but very rarely. The same happens with a USB HDD, I even > get the copy progress meter, but again nothing there. Everything works fine > in the opposite direction ie SUSE ---> Dapper > > I've tried other non linux OSs and it works OK, but not under Dapper even > after a VFAT reformat. Is a permission issue? > > Any help would be well appreciated, it's getting to the point that I'm > beginning to think Windows thoughts about Dapper!
I've not had this problem, but my initial question is whether you are probably unmounting the drive under linux. (Right click, choose unmount, I think.) The reason is that writes to USB-connected flash drives are buffered in Linux. The file will appear to copy, but actually was only written to a memory buffer and not written to the actual drive until some seconds/minute or two later. When you unmount the drive, that memory buffer is cleared and actually written to the disk. Make sense? -Eamonn -- ubuntu-uk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
