linux unmount of fat32 partition

[CTho9305]

what exactly happens? I'm using a physical drive in vmware (I gave linux in vmware read-only access to my real fat32 partition), and when I umount the partition, vmware warns me about it trying to write to the drive. this is especially interesting since I have the partition mounted read only in linux too. Any idea what's going on?

thanks

 

[DaHitman]

I bet its trying mark the disk as clean... Linux marks disks as "clean" when it unmounts them so it knows they are clean on remount.. if they are not marked clean on bootup then it will try to run a file system check on them..

 

[CTho9305]

ah, that could be. i've neveer had it f-s-c-k a fat32 partition though.

how annoying!!! if I take the dashes out, it says that its a banned word

 

[bumwith]

Have you added an entry in your fstab for your fat32 partition, giving it the never check option in the fs check column? If it is writing to mark the partition cleanly unmounted to prevent fs check, maybe this would help.

 

[bumwith]

Have you added an entry in your fstab for your fat32 partition, giving it the never check option in the fs check column? If it is writing to mark the partition cleanly unmounted to prevent fs check, maybe this would help.