• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    You can use sync in terminal. But it’s tricky because it sometimes returns even when the writing isn’t finished.
    My method is to use sync multiple time, if it returns immediately 2 times it should be clear,
    Only then do i dismount the stick, because I don’t like to dismount a device with pending operations. But when the dismount says the stick is ready to be removed, you should be clear.

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      2 hours ago

      exactly. thats unnecessarily complicated for someone on a rush because of something that should be a functional progress bar.

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        3 hours ago

        What annoys me is that this was an issue as far back as the early 90’s. On DOS and Windows 3.11. It’s such an annoyance that I don’t get how this problem still exist?!
        If the unmount function can see if write is finished, a file copy function should obviously be able to see it’¨s own copy state.