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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <danceswithcrows@usa.net> 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.

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