On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 08:23:53PM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > Generally when I am messing with usb drives I have used these 2 commands: > > grep Dirty /proc/meminfo (dirty is the amount of write buffers that > need to be flushed for all disks, most will usually be the disk that > was just copied to)
Thanks for the hint. watch grep Dirty /proc/meminfo :) > 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. seems useful if there's more than one disk to monitor: watch -dc vmstat -d definitely my favorite (the colors .. :) would be: dstat -d -t -C all -f 3 Thanks again, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
