man sync. it doesn't turn off the lights but it makes sure all buffer that's supposed to be written to disk but still in memory cache (performance reasons) are actually written to the disk. i heard of horror stories about killing thumb drives by unplugging it but to date and with 3 thumbdrives i haven't killed any of them yet both in nix and xp. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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