tlaro...@polynum.com 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. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."