top | item 39163229 (no title) 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. discuss order hn newest 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.
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.
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.
mort96|2 years ago
("Eject" is macOS's term for "unmount filesystem")
NoZebra120vClip|2 years ago
"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.