The 02/12/11, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Friday 02 Dec 2011 11:54:45 Timothy Redaelli wrote: > > Hi, > > by default linux mounts the devices with the async option. > > You can mount using the sync option, so you are sure that the I/O is > > made synchronously. > > Just remember: "In case of media with limited number of write cycles > > (e.g. some flash drives) "sync" may cause life-cycle shortening." > > (from man 8 mount) > > Yes, that's probably it. I don't see "sync" in the mount options, so I'm > guessing it's being mounted async. Shouldn't udev be taking care of this for > usb drives? No. udev is basically for devices discovery and naming them in /dev. > By the way, I'm mounting the drive via udisks (from KDE). So noone else is > seeing this? Before trying any sync mount option, try to manually sync disks with the sync command to check if it fixes you issue. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
