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
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:32:35 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
There have been some bugs afaik and a sync has been a workaround.
. . .
You should not lose any data if you wait for umount to succeed afaik.
So the workaround doesn't hold any more?
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T o n g:
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?
No, it's completely unnecessary as umount does the sync for you. Just
don't unplug removable drives before umount returns.
If I copy a big chuck
On 17/09/10 22:25, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
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?
If I copy a big chuck of file to my USB, then issue umount immediately,
will I lost any data? I think Linux will
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:32:35PM CEST, Timo Juhani Lindfors
timo.lindf...@iki.fi said:
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
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 17/09/10 22:25, T o n g wrote:
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umount swap? I suspect you mean swapoff (though I can't think of many
uses).
There probably aren't many, but one is to reclaim disk space.
For example, if you use swap files (as opposed to partitions) and the file
system
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