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

[Evgeny Stambulchik]

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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