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minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoI have hated “Safely Remove” from back when I was on Windows. Always did weird GUI stuff and does on this too. So I just use syncand when it properly finishes, I do safely remove.
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoI always assumed “safely remove” is just a umount which in turn does the sync before returning.
minus-squareflameleaf@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI type sync, then unmount/eject, then safely remove Can’t be too careful
minus-squareShayeta@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoSame, waiting for sync -f to finish would help most of the time.
I have hated “Safely Remove” from back when I was on Windows.
Always did weird GUI stuff and does on this too.
So I just use
syncand when it properly finishes, I do safely remove.I always assumed “safely remove” is just a umount which in turn does the sync before returning.
I type
sync, then unmount/eject, then safely removeCan’t be too careful
Same, waiting for sync -f to finish would help most of the time.