Autoflush USB thumb drive after copy

[Kevin Cozens]

On 1/31/07, Byron Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I've got a USB thumb drive that I rarely use. Just started to again, but
>> when I copy a file to it, unless I umount the node when I'm done, the
>> file doesn't get committed. IMO, this is stupid - anyone know the
>> reasoning behind this?
>>
>> If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
What is wrong with unmounting a drive before removing it? If you pull 
out a USB thumb drive under Windows you will get a nasty message saying 
that you should have told it you wanted to stop using the device before 
you pulled it out. Its pretty much the same thing in Linux. It makes 
sure any unwritten data is written to the device, and that no one else 
is using the device.


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