"sync" option in fstab for USB memory stick

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Thu Jul 28 05:16:11 UTC 2005


Wrote a 26 MB file (using cp) to my Sandisk minicruiser (USB 2.0) memory 
stick, it took 17 minutes! Seemed to be a LITTLE SLOW :), so I started 
looking for the reason and found it in the fstab entry, it was the 
"sync" option.

When I mounted the stick without the sync option the cp + a single sync 
to flush the data to the device took 10 seconds.

Can someone tell me how to change the automagically generated fstab entry?

Thanks,

John




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