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[–] 79 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 64 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    7 seconds, 14 minutes, 12 seconds, 800 years, done.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (7 children)

    Except if writing it to a stick, it's not quite done, it's just all been copied to the cache, and the actual writing to the stick is only half finished. πŸ€₯

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Unless I'm mistaken, that's what the "eject disk" command doesβ€”just flushes the buffers to the drive and unmounts.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    just flushes the buffers to the drive and unmounts.

    Which can take several minutes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Yeah file dialog estimates got a lot better once the buffer size and sync flag was invented.

    dd if=large-ass_file.txt \
       of=/mnt/usb1/large_ass-file.txt \
       status=progress bs=30M oflag=sync
    
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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    You have seen other progress meters than I have. Mine give me a pretty good estimate often times.

    But don't get me started on friendly dates. Especially friendly dates in emails from a week ago, that tell me that a file has been changed yesterday. coughFuck you nextcloud.

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