Dave,
Irving, Dave wrote:
[snip]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:
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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:
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
