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Hi everybody
the problem is when I plug an usb stick or a SD card, all with FAT32 fs, GNOME (I use gnome-shell) asks me if I want to mount and open the device.
so, it loads properly and when it's open I can do all the things you are supposed to do with them.
The issue first appaired when I copied some pics to an SD card. It appaired the progress bar saying it completed the copy process.
So I umounted the device and removed it. Some other people said that actually there weren't any files in the SD card.
Supposing it was bad/corrupted fs I formatted the card and put back the images there. Same issue. I was starting to think the SD card was damaged
until I had the same problem while copying music to my phone (via USB cable).
I noticed it created all the files but didn't store any actual data (e.g. size of files was always 0 byte) or even didn't do anything (neither created the file) sometimes.
Searching the web I found that it wasn't syncing - so they told me to do the sync command on the shell - nothing solved.
So as I read on the wiki [fstab], I mounted the devices with options "sync,flush", which in fact solved the problem.
[Actually I later found that it works even without the flush option, just with the sync option]
Doing so I solved the problem and could copy all the data to the devices.
What I want to know is: how can I say to GNOME (or anyother GNOME uses to mount devices) "well, whenever I put a removable device, mount it with the sync option" ?
thank you in advance,
azzka
PS: [not so important]: I noticed very slow copying bitrate, and I did what the wiki says about but didn't solve anything. Any ideas?
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