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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Loo wrote:

> I believe at least from SUSE 10.0, unless you fiddle with HAL, the usb
> stick is mountedwith sync. It basically means there is no buffering on
> the transfer and make sure that each transfer is correctly placed into
> the USB stick (causes a lot of writes to the FAT table). As a result, if
> the transfer is complete, e.g. a cp, you can just yank the device out at
> that time. All the files and updates are already properly written to the
> USB stick.
> 

In 10.1, there's now a "Mounting" tab, in the device properties.  You
can specify read only, quiet, synchronous, access time updates, mount
point, mount automatically, flushed IO, UTF-8 charset, mount as user and
a drop down list for "Short names".

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