Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I don't get that icon.  I just unmount the drive.


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