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On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:14:14 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> > > I need a pointer, please. Something is amiss on my laptop’s |
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> > > setup. When I copy a number of big files (i.e. videos) from one USB |
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> > > device to another, it starts to read the file, then after a few |
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> > > seconds starts to write to the destination and only *after* that |
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> > > file has been completely written, it continues with the next file. |
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> > What are the mount options on the USB drives? |
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> My external HDD: |
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> /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/frank/Volume type fuseblk |
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> (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2) |
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> My USB stick: /dev/sdc1 on /run/media/frank/SYSRESC type vfat |
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> (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2) |
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It's the flush option, from man mount: |
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flush |
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If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more early than normal. |
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Not set by default. |
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