Storage on Floppy

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

On April 13, 2004 01:37 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, John Wildberger wrote:
> > What I said applies to a Mandrake 9.1 system. The Floppy is an external
> > USB Floppy.  I only posted this as a curiousity item with the thought in
> > mind that it might interest someone.  One respondent found it necessary
>
> Ah, the external USB floppy explains it. Maybe it's a bug. Anyway the
> 'enhanced' umount command I posted just before will fix it. You can rename
> or alias umount for shell work so:
>
> alias umount='sync; umount'
>

mount -t vfat -o sync,dirsync /dev/sda /mnt/flash

works for me. In this case you don't need to sync data, it always will be 
synced.


I have a perl script, who works as hotplug usb script for my digital camera, 
and usb key.

If someone interested, I can post it here.

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Sergey Kuznetsov
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