--- In Jason Stahls <> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Jason Stahls
>
sync -- got it. Thanks.
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