-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 12/02/2011 11:58 AM, 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? > > By the way, I'm mounting the drive via udisks (from KDE). So noone > else is seeing this? You can try to edit the udev mount options: # echo 'ACTION=="add", ENV{mount_options}="sync"' > /etc/udev.d/rules.d/99-mount-options.rules Then you must reload udev rules: # udevadm control --reload-rules - -- Timothy Redaelli drizztbsd @ irc.freenode.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJO2LIEAAoJEOcRMG48T4i8s/8H/iAWvcTkqfrwaibdcatunT5w O/eWtnw5cw0xoG9IIu13So+a0EuzvWWly5NcNmd8HVqKlmuHi1gimTeAuwdmuS46 tqDIcaYHUfw7VobLEPinWgLeA6QVYTiKPpqP6oxdDeydXYs16ub1F5Gk3OAxXDUQ C3zQpcfFLVb2wSYYwAoo++USWPApVSAtlfW2mt/7Oz3ggJrhgZN9U+dAWRdLFe/b Kw+nDJCCG3x33nMSLgAfWe4237Bif0Q2OOZfcZ/RFfV7wRiEZ6AtaRknfVvVIBLy u53BrUqid9u7ZV7CpTvU41ka2py1KeHMBAXkIDvwCzAhgtDnQSi/Tp9gTfURdm4= =r74L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----