Storage on Floppy

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> Ah, the external USB floppy explains it. Maybe it's a bug. Anyway the

Sounds like a bug to me (probably USB related as you note).  I'd really
want to see this reproduced to be sure though.

> 'enhanced' umount command I posted just before will fix it. You can rename
> or alias umount for shell work so:
>
> alias umount='sync; umount'

Remembering that sync does not guaranteee a disk write right away but tags
the data to be written back to disk.

Sans bugs the umount should be doing a sync itself, and then waiting until
the data _is_ back before unmounting the filesystem.

Cheers,
	Rob

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