mintCast 172 – Lightweight Linux Desktops

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The Main Topic: Lightweight Linux Desktops

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• Looking through my personal list of useful commands, I wonder if you have used the sync command as a tip?  It’s a command that writes all data to a disk. I use it when I want to make sure all the data is written to a flash drive before I unmount it so I know I won’t lose data.
• Should you sync multiple times?
  http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5260/is-there-truth-to-the-philosophy-that-you-should-sync-sync-sync-sync
• “The sync folklore dates from the very old days when Unix was primitive…”
  http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSync
• “The act of unmounting a filesystem using umount will sync the data to the disk before it unmounts it.”
  http://serverfault.com/questions/115069/is-execution-of-sync8-still-required-before-shutting-down-linux

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