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Tom Diehl wrote:
>> see 'man sync'.
> 
> How is that better then simply umounting the thing?

from man sync;

'sync - flush file system buffers'

in his post;

} I've been using eject /media/* but that only happens to work because nothing
} else is mounted there.

therefore, he is either at command line or is in a terminal.

by 'simply umounting the thing', he is not flushing buffers.


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tc,hago.

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