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Re:Mac Chimes of Death by badsectoracula on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:21PM (#26828257)
Same here, though replace "Command+S" with "F2"(DOS)/"Ctrl+S"(Win). Also counting to 10 before turning off the PC because of software-based disk write cache :-P
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Re:Mac Chimes of Death by dcminter on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:04AM (#26830958)
> software-based disk write cache

Linux users of a certain era had to overcome compulsive use of 'sync ; sync ; sync' for much the same reason.

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