I don't sync like Bob does, I just watch the io to estimate the copy time of whatever amount I am copying.
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > On 07May2018 20:23, Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> the second is "vmstat 1" and watch the bi/bo columns as they show >> reads and writes to the disk subsystem, if it umounts when the writes >> stop that implies the sync may have returned before it actually did >> all its work. > > > Do you actually see this happen? Just asking. Because that would imply that > sync doesn't, actaully, do what it is supposed to do. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org