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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by fit2rule on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:11AM (#11180841)
I still type "sync;sync;sync" before I unmount something.

(This used to be how you'd tell the tape-spooler to rewind..)

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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by ashmud on Friday February 26, 2016 @11:18AM (#11182164)
Reminds me: Sysinternals Sync on Windows.

Always, always sync -r after writing to a zip drive on Windows. Even minutes after you think it is finished writing, do not trust the OS to have finished flushing to disk.

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