On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:31:48 +0100 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 23.11.2010 04:52, schrieb David Relson: > > I'd like to reduce the time delay between a command or program's > > writing to a file on a flash drive and when ext2 actually writes > > the data to the drive. How can I do this? > > > > Mount with the option commit=x where x is a time in seconds. 0 means > default (=5). > > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp >
It doesn't work for my USB memory stick which has the default filesystem, i.e. vfat According to mount's man page, commit=n is for ext3.