Re: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy

Rob Landley wrote:

On the other hand, umount is supposed to flush all the data

by the time it returns yet still it succeeded.

Is that guaranteed?  Or do you need to pass some weird flag to umount?

I believe this is the default behavior. How otherwise do you know when it's safe to eject/disconnect a removable media (floppy, USB disk-on-key,...)?

Regards,

Evgeny
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