On 26Apr2020 18:36, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
On 2020-04-26 17:36, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On 26Apr2020 20:00, Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 16:50:57 -0700
>>ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a better command to see if the flush
>>>is finished?
>>
>>The umount should hang till the writes are done. That's the
>>way it always works for me.
>
>Definitely. But so should the sync. Something's odd there. That
>said, I have never done sync with a device name. ToddAndMargo: was
>your device name correct? Syncing the wrong devie might well come
>back instantly.
My bad. As soon as I exited the krusader window inside
the stick, I could unmount
Aha, device busy. A hand umount from the command line will complain
about that. And lsof will often tell you what's got its hooks in, IIRC.
Classic example for me is the stray idle shell cded into the volume.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>