Re: USB hotplugging and data loss....

From: Alexander Apprich (a.apprich_at_science-computing.de)
Date: 03/16/05

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    Dave,

    Irving, Dave wrote:
    > Hey,
    >
    > I got myself a memory stick yesterday, and was pleasantly supprised when
    > I plugged it in to my Linux box (FC3) at work and it was immediately
    > detected and mounted.
    > I could read / write to it with no problems at all.
    > So, I took it home with me and did some work last night on my linux (FC3
    > also) laptop - which I tar/gz'd and saved on my memory stick.
    > Put the memory stick back in to my work box this morning - and the files
    > from last night are gone (heh - this is a bit like the 'ole "the dog ate
    > my homework" excuse isn't it...).
    > So I played around a bit more with plugging in -> writing -> unplugging
    > and noticed that sometimes the written files can be seen after plugging
    > back in, and sometimes they cant.
    > In terms of sys logs:
    >
    [snip]
    >
    > Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?
    > For the moment Im going to have to save -> remove -> re-insert -> check
    > everytime I want to save something :o)
    >
    > By the way - here's the log for when I insert the stick:
    >
    [snip]
    >

    not that I can really explain what happend to your USBstick ...
    What I do to prevent data loss on the stick is, I use sync and then
    unmount it via umount /media/usbdisk Could you try this out?!

    > thanks,
    >
    > Dave
    >

    Alex 

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