You are completely right, Matt; sorry for the trouble caused. I realized yesterday, after sending the report, that I was doing something terribly wrong :(
Anyway, thanks for the prompt response. It's always reassuring to see that response is so great in Debian support :) Alex. On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:40:31 -0800, Matt Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Taggart writes... > > > > > Alex Fernandez writes... > > > > > USB memory stick was mounted as "ramfs", since vfat was not working. > > > Relevant line from /etc/fstab: > > > /dev/sda /mnt/usbkey ramfs rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > > > That's your problem then. ramfs is, like the name suggests, a filesystem > > that > > resides in memory. mount will ignore the /dev/sda you specified and just > > create a ramfs instance at /mnt/usbkey. Try umounting it and remounting it > > an > > d > > you'll see that the contents disappear. If you specify ramfs without any > > options the default behavior is to create a ramfs with a maximum size of one > > half of physical memory. > > Oops, I think I'm confusing ramfs with tmpfs here but the problem is still > similar, you're using ram and not the flash device. > > -- > Matt Taggart > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
