Re: safely remove USB hard drive

g wrote:

Tom Diehl wrote:

see 'man sync'.

How is that better then simply umounting the thing?

from man sync;

'sync - flush file system buffers'

in his post;

} I've been using eject /media/* but that only happens to work because nothing
} else is mounted there.

therefore, he is either at command line or is in a terminal.

by 'simply umounting the thing', he is not flushing buffers.

I though that the umount command flushed the buffers as part of the process. At least that has been my experience in the past. One problem I can see if it a conventional had drive, rather then a flash drive, is that the drive itself may not have flushed its write buffers to disk, but even the sync command does not help with this.

Mikkel
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