Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

[Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 06:56 -0700, Tony Godshall wrote:
[...]
> 
> A side note/tip:  It can be good to mount these types of
> drives with -o sync.  I've pulled out my usb flash drive by
> mistake before it was really done because without option
> sync cp and mv would return as soon as the operation was 
> queued.
Unless you want significant better performance.  I really like being
able to work off of floppies and usb drives quickly with async set.  You
can mess around all you want, and then when you're done unmount and
watch Linux throw it all on!