Hi. Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IIRC it depends on the size of the storage, i.e. if it is below a > certain size it won't get moutned sync because then it's probably some > kind of a flash device which can only be written a certain number of > times. In that case, sync is a bad idea because it will wear your device > much faster. Hmm. The following is an excerpt from my laptop's /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /media/CCYU_TECH vfat pamconsole,noatime,async,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sdb10 /media/usbdisk ext3 pamconsole,noatime,async,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sdb12 /media/usbdisk1 ext3 pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sdb13 /media/MacOSX hfsplus pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sda is a 64MB USB flash device /dev/sdb is a 15GB hard disk drive in an USB enclosure, sdb10 being a quite small partition. So small partitions get explicitly mounted async, but isn't that the default, anyway? -- "The cardinal rule for dealing with women is `Kill it. Kill it now'. Remember `Alien'?" -- Richard Watts
