so *I have a 16 gig usb.... I can't afford to buy a 20 *gig drive so I guess I'll use it. So I was going to move the files on it to the smaller USB but when I stuck the USB drive which was originally going to be the backup drive it didn't auto mount and a nice file manager window didn't open. How would .... nevermind. I just checked du and there is too much stuff in it. How wlould I make it so that it will automount and open the nice file manager? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > cool... thanks for that little tidbit about adding sync to fstab. However, > how do I fix it now w/o a restart? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> From: Michael Havens >> > Oh HO! I figured it out. I removed the drive w/o umount first. I >> > just did it again and figured it out. How do I fix that? >> >> Don't remove a disk without umounting the filesystems that live there. >> If you >> do that, you could cause filesystem corruption. This is because writes >> are >> not necessarily done synchronously, so if you unplug a disk without >> umounting >> it, it might have have half of a file written. You could add "sync" to >> the >> fstab line, which will make all writes synchronous, but that'll make the >> disk >> slower. >> >> -- >> Matt G / Dances With Crows >> The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ >> There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >