[email protected] writes:
>But I have heard the disk writing after the filesystem was unmounted and
>the prompt back. Several seconds after, even one minute or a bit more...
unmounting flushes caches, so all writes will be done when umount
returns.
>This was with the USB connection.
>With SATA, mounting with "sync", I had not such a (bad) surprise.
Obviously the disk or the USB bridge could lie about completed writes,
but that's unlikely.
My guess is you heard some other disk activity, maybe a SMART check
that the USB bridge enabled for you.
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