Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 08 April 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Bill Anderson wrote:
> > I noticed that the default elevator applies to everything, including
> > USB memory sticks. I thought the block device driver would change the
> > I/O scheduler to something more appropriate for a memory stick, such
> > as the noop scheduler.
>
> While we're on the subject, I've also noticed that memory sticks are no
> longer mounted with synchronous writes in 10.2.  I very nearly found
> this out the hard way, by losing data.  I now make sure I issue a 'sync'
> command before unplugging my memory stick.

I always get a desktop icon in KDE which has a Safe Remove option.

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John Andersen