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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Memory cards and deleting files.
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:47:19
Message-Id: rcqcos$25i$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files. by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2020-06-22, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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3 > I'd run sync as well, just to be sure, although umount shouldn't return
4 > until everything is flushed to the card.
5
6 I suppose it's possible that the data _had_ been flushed to the card,
7 but was still the card's write buffers and had not been committed to
8 flash when the card was pulled. One would hope that SD cards have
9 sync write commands and those commands would be used by the umount
10 code...
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13 Grant