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Date:      Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:00:45 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Colin King <ring_06@m202.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Justin Finkelstein <justin@redwiredesign.com>
Subject:   Re: Hot-swap SATA and atacontrol
Message-ID:  <20050802160045.GA61854@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff050802084439209f7e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20050802152009.GA29643@mercury.m202.net> <008c01c59777$42db5520$0b02a8c0@justin> <790a9fff050802084439209f7e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:44:07AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote..
> On 8/2/05, Justin Finkelstein <justin@redwiredesign.com> wrote:
> > I might be being a little dense, but what do you mean by sync?
> > 
> before you unmount the drive, type:
> 
> sync
> sync
> sync
> 
> Then unmount the drive, and remove it.

Unmount does not return until the buffers have been synced anyway,
so this does not buy you anything.

The ancient form is more like:

sync;sync;sync;<halt button on your PDP/11 frontpanel>

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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