From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 05:04:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9549016A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 05:04:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC4643D39 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 05:04:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from BlackBsd@mountain.net) Received: from mountain.net (c-24-3-40-251.client.comcast.net[24.3.40.251]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004020413045301300ldblle>; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:04:53 +0000 Message-ID: <4020EDF2.2000505@Mountain.Net> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:04:50 -0500 From: Brian Black User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fclift@verio.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: usb umass flash drive mount/umount questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: BlackBsd@Mountain.Net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:04:55 -0000 Fred, have u tried to give the sync option when mounting. Tho i have not used usb.conf to auto mount(which is cool), my /etc/fstab line reads /dev/da0s1 /mnt/thumb ufs2 rw,noauto,sync 0 0 IMO, even if u use the sync option u are not guaranteed to have all the data written out to the thumb drive if u wish to just pull the device from the box. the box cannot determine when u are going to pull the device. by doing the umount the computer knows to flush all the I/O because the thumb drive might be pulled. hope that helps any. -- ----------------------------------------- - Brian Black (Software Engineer) - - BlackBsd@Mountain.Net - - ProActiveTechllc.com - - Wintersville OH - -----------------------------------------