On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:34:05AM -0700, pedxing wrote: > Lenny AMD64. > > When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that > the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to > complete. I assume there is some form of caching going on. > > To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it > (up to 15 minutes!) to complete before unmounting the drive. when mounting the partition mount it with sync, but it get very slow. 15 minutes sounds way to slow, I write to my 8G usb 2.0 in about 2-3 min when I have done a lot of work on it and the system is busy. is it registering as usb2 or 1.1 ? > > Is there any way to prevent the caching from occuring? I would like > to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my > wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy > dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device without > having to wait for a delayed write. > > I have looked at the mount man page, but it says the sync option > (which I think is what I want) is only available for ext2/3 and ufs > file systems. > > -Ped > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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