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How to sync filesystem and wait until it's done

On my embedded device, I want to let user export logs on plugged USB disk. USB disk is normally used only to read, so I don't care much about safe unmounting. But when logs are stored to it, I need to ...
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filesystem on Linux for SD card for Dropbox sync

I have a super small drive on my ultraportable lenovo 100s. I want to sync several gb of stuff from my dropbox onto it, so I have equipped it with a western digital purple sd card. I plan to use that ...
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Is there a way to keep two directories (on two servers) in sync with each other, truly?

I have two servers in AWS that we are using to store a software packages codebase that is accessed by the web application/server. /var/www/vhosts/application-dua/content/ This same folder structure ...
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How to know how much data for writing to file system is pending in the system on Linux system?

I have a need to know how long the machine would take for the write cache to be flushed to actual disk. Right now, when I try to unmount a disk, unmount waits for sync to complete. On USB stick, this ...
Naoyuki Tai's user avatar