Subj : Re: Move bookworm system from SSD to NVME
To   : The Natural Philosopher
From : =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Lundin?=
Date : Fri Aug 02 2024 16:03:52

On 2024-08-02 14:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Never mind sync.
>
> It's important to wait anyway on an SSD/nvm until it has finished its
> internal business.
>
> For any copy process.


dd'ing 500 Gb to an ssd disk, I've seen sync taking 30 s or more
and sync is of course started AFTER dd is done

So - how do you know it is done its internal business?
Not all drives have blinking LEDs

sync makes it easy to know


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/Björn

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