Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoQuestion: What is Linux misinformation?message-squaremessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down19file-text
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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-23 months agoWhy stop there curl $windows_iso_url | sudo dd of=/dev/sda bs=4M && sudo sync; sudo reboot (Do not run this)
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 months agoMakes sure all writes are flushed to disk On reflection probably not needed as I think reboot does that too
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoSync the internal drive cache with the disk. IIRC
Why stop there
curl $windows_iso_url | sudo dd of=/dev/sda bs=4M && sudo sync; sudo reboot(Do not run this)
What does sync do?
Makes sure all writes are flushed to disk
On reflection probably not needed as I think reboot does that too
Ah sync from RAM to disk?
Sync the internal drive cache with the disk. IIRC