Autoflush USB thumb drive after copy

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:43, Byron Sonne wrote:

> This must be a very basic issue and I'm sure there's a quick fix for it.
> However, I haven't found a quick fix by poking around my system or STFW
> yet. I thought for sure this'd be something I could tweak with an
> /etc/sysconfig editor, but no go. sysctl -a didn't show anything that
> looked apropos either.

I think you might get close to the behaviour that you want by arranging for 
the filesystem to be mounted synchronously (sync option), dirsync might also 
be needed, dunno.

Keep in mind that even Windows forces you to "safely remove" hardware such as 
this - though it may commit it's writes more quickly than Linux.

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