On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:27:25PM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > Or if you can force to flush the cache by issuing a "sync" command just > before unmounting the drive. So just use "sync && umount <mounted_pt>" > intead of just umount.
I would've thought that a 'umount' would 'sync' as well. I can't reproduce the errors right now, but they were pertaining to the device numbers. Even 'umount' works at the filesystem level. I think to be safe, we need some system call that tells the kernel that the device is gone. (Maybe in kernel 2.6?) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
