Timeline for When is it safe to disconnect my external HDD?
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| Mar 31, 2013 at 15:58 | vote | accept | jcora | ||
| Mar 30, 2013 at 21:11 | comment | added | ott-- | @jasonwryan When sync returns to the shell prompt, there's still no garantee that all data have been written. See linux.die.net/man/8/sync | |
| Mar 30, 2013 at 20:05 | comment | added | jasonwryan | Might be worth mentioning that you can also manually issue sync to make sure the buffers are flushed before removing the drive... | |
| Mar 30, 2013 at 20:02 | history | answered | phemmer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |