mem sticks: how to force sync mounts?

[Brendan]

On Monday 16 July 2007, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 19:00:54 Nils Kassube wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That article is 2 years old. That's a lot. Level wear to the rescue. I know
> FAT hammers flash like nothing else, but still.
> Well, at least I'd like an applet or systray icon for that, can't see any
> tho. 3rd party?

Just run sync every once in awhile, and unmount when you're ready to pull.
No biggie.