Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:02:01 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: Colin King <ring_06@m202.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Justin Finkelstein <justin@redwiredesign.com> Subject: Re: Hot-swap SATA and atacontrol Message-ID: <20050802160200.GB62369@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff050802084439209f7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050802152009.GA29643@mercury.m202.net> <008c01c59777$42db5520$0b02a8c0@justin> <790a9fff050802084439209f7e@mail.gmail.com>
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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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