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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:49:20 -0400
From: Brian Clapper <brian-freebsd-001@clapper.org>
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On 14 April, 2004, at 16:24 (-0500)
Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:

> At 2004-04-14T20:33:09Z, brian-freebsd-001@clapper.org writes:
>
> > Even better, have usbd do it for you. Add this line to /etc/usbd.conf:
>
> While we're on the subject, that's *not* a recommended way of unmounting USB
> memory sticks though, correct?  After all, the filesystem wouldn't be
> unmounted until the stick had been removed, at which point it's too late to
> sync the filesystem.

I mount the file system read-only, courtesy of my entry in /etc/fstab. It
shouldn't require sync'ing.

-Brian

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