T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> writes: > I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before > umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary?
There have been some bugs afaik and a sync has been a workaround. > If I copy a big chuck of file to my USB, then issue umount immediately, > will I lost any data? I think Linux will make sure all data are flushed > to USB before the umount is successfully finished, but I want a confirm. You should not lose any data if you wait for umount to succeed afaik. > How about umount swaps? umount really necessary? You don't mount swaps so you can't umount them either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/84k4mk35zw....@sauna.l.org
