Re: Problem flushing buffers for USB devices.

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On 12/11/2010 09:05 AM, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 11. 12. 2010 05:07:31 je C.T.F. Jansen napisal(a):
> > Greetings,
> >            The flushing of buffers for devices plugged into a USB port
> > is problematic. When writing data to a USB stick it usually took two
> > attempts to write a directory to a USB stick. The first attempt
> > didn't show the directory was there when it was removed then plugged
> > back in.
> Gnome does that automatically *provided that* you right-click on the
> USB drive icon and select "Unmount" (or was it "Eject"?) from the menu.
> Abrupt removing/replugging USB drives will only corrupt your data. Of
> course, I may be reading your situation wrong; in that case, please
> disregard my post.

Not only gnome: umount the disk (no matter how the umounting is invoked) 
should flush all buffers.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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