From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NB2JH-0007Kk-5d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:24:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F1C5E079B; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B9BE079B for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:23:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (majikthise.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E71AE4B84F3 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:22:56 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:22:54 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears Message-ID: <20091119082254.7df108a1@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9f445cb1caffe80e6e6b9b9b6c34d313@localhost> References: <7bef1f890911181846x3a4ba55cxc473229eef3c5b65@mail.gmail.com> <9f445cb1caffe80e6e6b9b9b6c34d313@localhost> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs13 (GTK+ 2.18.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/FLwbY+g2VoxIK87YFy3Tecp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 8d271d17-b402-4889-b42a-3a0165bcc1c5 X-Archives-Hash: d1ab14d95402a3913b45cc617e5ddad5 --Sig_/FLwbY+g2VoxIK87YFy3Tecp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:30:46 +0100, Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero wrote: > Even if you didn't, in my understanding, all that could cause (normally) > is a broken file system. The effects will usually depends on whatever > was happening at the moment, and at the fs you are using. As he was only reading from the drive, I doubt he could have corrupted the filesystem, let alone the partition table. > Some mount > options can influence this as well. To palliate the effects of a > catastrophic plug off without having umounted before you can use the > -osync mount option, which will enable synchronous writes (making your > device seems slower, because writes will no longer be deferred/cached > for a later oportunity). However, these increase writes to the device, particularly to the FAT, shortening the life of the drive. I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter. --=20 Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them --Sig_/FLwbY+g2VoxIK87YFy3Tecp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksFAF4ACgkQum4al0N1GQP6nwCgzSV15Q042elrW/s8BSPs5RpM CJYAn3K8mLYNUBkpj2g4DQ39xlP15B6n =yNpI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/FLwbY+g2VoxIK87YFy3Tecp--