On 7/5/24 6:36 AM, Tide Ka via users wrote:
On 7/5/24 3:22 AM, Tim via users wrote:
So I typed sync, and that stayed doing something until the
flashdrive stopped blinking, then the cursor returned immediately. So,
I'm tempted to think that the caching delay was part of the OS rather
than the d
On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 06:36 -0700, Tide Ka via users wrote:
> I have gone through man pages of `dd` and find executing `sync` right
> after the writing finished may not be enabled by default. That requires
> passing `oflag=sync` or passing nocache to `conv=`, but non of the above
> is done in th
On 7/5/24 3:22 AM, Tim via users wrote:
So I typed sync, and that stayed doing something until the
flashdrive stopped blinking, then the cursor returned immediately. So,
I'm tempted to think that the caching delay was part of the OS rather
than the drive.
Your reaction is likely to be right.
Samuel Sieb:
>> The writing is finished when dd exits, but the drive might keep flashing
>> briefly after that. Or maybe the drive has some internal caching that
>> it doesn't advertise (that would be very bad).
Tide Ka:
> Won't there be any kernel cache, so `sync` command is their for coping
On 7/4/24 6:14 PM, Tide Ka via users wrote:
On 7/5/24 08:58, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The writing is finished when dd exits, but the drive might keep
flashing briefly after that. Or maybe the drive has some internal
caching that it doesn't advertise (that would be very bad).
Won't there be any k
On 7/5/24 08:58, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The writing is finished when dd exits, but the drive might keep flashing
briefly after that. Or maybe the drive has some internal caching that
it doesn't advertise (that would be very bad).
Won't there be any kernel cache, so `sync` command is their for c
On 7/4/24 2:16 PM, Tim via users wrote:
You know, I'd like to try installing Fedora 40 (MATE spin), but found
it almost impossible. The downloaded ISO couldn't be booted, whether
DD'd to a flashdrive, or burnt to a DVD. The UEFI motherboard is
ASRock B250M Pro4 (circa 2018), not running in any
I succeeded in the end, but this is a story about an annoying amount of
pain that shouldn't have been necessary...
You know, I'd like to try installing Fedora 40 (MATE spin), but found
it almost impossible. The downloaded ISO couldn't be booted, whether
DD'd to a flashdrive, or burnt to a DVD.
