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[Solved[ Is ChatGPT hallucinating about "umount /dev/sdx && sync"? (lemmy.one)

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If one unmounts a disk, is that disk still available for write and can the following sync do anything?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah I'm thinking about fuse filesystems and hotplugged USB keys though. There was a time when the feedback about devices being ready to unplug was bad for users.

This answer suffered the fog of time. Never needed it with the unmount command.