The 02/12/11, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 11:54:45 Timothy Redaelli wrote:
Hi, by default linux mounts the devices with the async option. You can mount using the sync option, so you are sure that the I/O is made synchronously. Just remember: "In case of media with limited number of write cycles (e.g. some flash drives) "sync" may cause life-cycle shortening." (from man 8 mount)
Yes, that's probably it. I don't see "sync" in the mount options, so I'm guessing it's being mounted async. Shouldn't udev be taking care of this for usb drives?
No. udev is basically for devices discovery and naming them in /dev.
By the way, I'm mounting the drive via udisks (from KDE). So noone else is seeing this?
Before trying any sync mount option, try to manually sync disks with the sync command to check if it fixes you issue. -- Nicolas Sebrecht