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Ran into my first problem within Fedora KDE Plasma... (lemmus.org)
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Since switching to fedora, I have been testing out its features and i just now ran into my first problem; Since my laptop doesn't have a SD card reader, I have to use an external SD card reader when i want to access my microSD cards. I recently tried to put in my Acer 2-in-1 SD Card reader and my system did not pick up that i inserted the card reader. I'm not sure on what I am supposed to do about that, so if anyone can give me any advice I'll appreciate it.

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[–] 1 point 16 hours ago (2 children)

I suppose some filesystems might be slightly faster to write to thus reducing the time it takes for the data to actually end up on the physical device, but while some filesystems are better equipped to gracefully handle the consequences of an interruption, none of them can fix data that doesn't exist because the drive was physically removed whilst being written to.

Always sync before ejecting a removable drive.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    The biggest UX issue, in KDE in particular (though they made some improvements recently), is that a copy process will say it's complete (with a notification), but you could be waiting several seconds or minutes before it's actually done syncing

    The sync command will block until it's done so you will know for sure. I believe ejecting the drive will sync before it reports success also.

    In my experience, simply waiting for the activity light to stop flashing is a good enough indication, but not all drives have one.

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