-- Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote: > Pull the floppy/DOK out after > saving and before the kernel flushes the cache (either because you > unmounted it or because the kernel wanted the cache space for > something else), and you've just lost your data. You're right; I tested this as you suggested and lost the test file. And Jay Austad suggested: > Your best bet is to use something like supermount, which will always make > sure the data on your removable devices is synced. This would be nice, except that AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong), supermount is undergoing a major rewrite for the 2.4 kernel (which is why Mandrake didn't include it in 8.1). I'm currently in the process of upgrading from 2.4.5 to 2.4.16 (thought I would wait a while for the VM to stabalize) and would dearly love to use something other than the brain-dead autofs that I am currently stuck with. :Peter