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submitted 3 days ago by Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same, waiting for sync -f to finish would help most of the time.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

TIL, dd has the option conv=fsync that makes it wait until all writing is finished, before exiting.

So you can just touch /path/to/new/filename and then dd ... of=/path/to/new/filename conv=fsync

Of course, you would have to do this for each file, in case it is multiple