mem sticks: how to force sync mounts?

[Nils Kassube]

Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Feisty won't mount usb mem sticks, cards in card readers and such with
> sync, so if I copy 200 megs of mp3 over to my player the dialog stays a
> second and then claims to be finished, which of course isn't the case -
> buffers are full and waiting to be written.
> Where would be the place to tell Feisty to mount certain devices with
> the sync option?

You definitely don't want to use the sync option for a flash drive (like 
USB memory stick or MP3 player) with a FAT file system:

http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html

Instead you should umount the drive before you remove it.


Nils