Jon L wrote:
> I lost power a few minutes after I edited, compiled, and linked a C source
> file. The system hard crashed, and I was surprised that when I rebooted the
> debian linux from the micro SD card, the C file did not have the changes.
>
> Am I right in assuming that the disk changes were held in a cache and the
> hard crash resulted in the disk changes never actually being written out?
>
> and as a follow up. how do I force the micro SD card to be physically written?
Yes you're right the changes were cached probably and not flushed out to
the device. You can force a cache flush with the sync command.
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Jason Stahls
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