safely remove drive

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 10:06 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
> > unfortunately, in gnome it's not the caase, and it happened many
> times i
> losed files because the sync was not finished yet, even after a few
> seconds
> after "Safely ...". 

I suspect that system-level buffering means that a user-level app can't
reliably tell when the cache has been completely flushed after an
unmount. I sometimes use iostat to check when I'm in doubt.

Of course the blinking light on a pendrive are also a clue :-)

poc