-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 20:37, H.S. wrote: > pedxing wrote: >> Lenny AMD64. >> >> When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that >> the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to >> complete. I assume there is some form of caching going on. >> >> To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it >> (up to 15 minutes!) to complete before unmounting the drive. >> >> Is there any way to prevent the caching from occuring? I would like >> to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my >> wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy >> dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device without >> having to wait for a delayed write. > > I am not sure if you realize this, but you cannot do that even in > Windows. There you actually have to click on the little USB icon on the > system tray and choose to "remove the device safely". This is exactly
Well, you learn something new every day... > what we do in Linux as well, well, at least in Gnome and KDE. In KDE for > example, you right click on the USB icon and click on "safely remove". > In both cases, it is never a good idea just to yank out the usb device, > otherwise is likely you will get corrupted data on your USB device. <QUESTION STYLE=RHETORICAL> And why, pray tell, can't you just yank out the stick? </QUESTION> Could it be that the NT codebase, being multi-tasking, has the same mount/unmount concept that every multi-user OS has had since 1970? > I have found it pretty easy to make users understand this by explaining > "just as you safely remove by clicking on the USB icon on your system > tray in Windows, similarly, safely remove your USB devices in Gnome or > KDE before disconnecting the device". Surprisingly, not many knew that > they had to do this in Windows as well. Some of them learned the hard > way ... "I copied my powerpoint to the USB stick, took out the stick, > went to the class and tried to project the lecture to the screen but it > won't work!" - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSmYVS9HxQb37XmcRAlVqAKDLuyMrxZd1khE2CFozkJDIqEmbJQCgjjpc jHaqLeJnDt8W6xT/F/Ni5R8= =75ax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]