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NoZebra120vClip | 2 years ago

For removable media, I believe that finishing up with "eject" would be the safest way to ensure that all writes were committed to the hardware.

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mort96|2 years ago

You can't "unmount the file system" because you're writing directly to the block device, the thumb drive isn't mounted.

("Eject" is macOS's term for "unmount filesystem")

NoZebra120vClip|2 years ago

Distrowatch.com is a site promoting use of Linux and BSD.

"eject" is a Linux command which attempts to safely disconnect removable media.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/en/man1/eject.1.h...

TFA doesn't mention filesystems at all, sort of jumps in where we find the block device. Things could become messy if the device were mounted while the copy is attempted.