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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Hot-swap SATA and atacontrol
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Scot Hetzel wrote this message on Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:44 -0500:
> On 8/2/05, Justin Finkelstein <justin@redwiredesign.com> wrote:
> > I might be being a little dense, but what do you mean by sync?
> > 
> before you unmount the drive, type:

just as a little hint since sync returns before everything is written
out, you can do fsync <diskdev> and it will then force out any
unwritten data for disk dev... (and not return till done)..

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