Re: [LAD] [OT] bash vs disk activity

From: Sampo Savolainen <v2@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 09 2007 - 14:02:31 EEST

Quoting Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>:

> For example if I transfer 200mb to a usb disk the copy command takes
> about 30 seconds before it returns and the data takes about 5 minutes
> before it is actually finished being transferred and the device is
> unmountable.

quick-hack(tm)

(cp -a /xxx /usb_device && sync) &
 
But remember sync flushes _everything_.

 Sampo
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