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Re: how to check how much data left to sync to disk at umount?

Started byDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
First post2015-09-17 04:00 +0200
Last post2015-09-18 13:40 +0200
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  Re: how to check how much data left to sync to disk at umount? Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-09-17 04:00 +0200
    Re: how to check how much data left to sync to disk at umount? Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 13:40 +0200

#1226622 — Re: how to check how much data left to sync to disk at umount?

FromDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Date2015-09-17 04:00 +0200
SubjectRe: how to check how much data left to sync to disk at umount?
Message-ID<q9wEq-5yg-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 01:29:33PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> When umount a slow device such as an SD card, the command will take a
> while to run depending on how much data is left to write to the
> device. Is there way to check how much data is remaining waiting to
> write to the device?

$ grep "Dirty\|Writeback" /proc/meminfo

And infer from that.

-Dave.
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FromJeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Date2015-09-18 13:40 +0200
Message-ID<qa2bf-1mt-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1226622
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 01:29:33PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
>> When umount a slow device such as an SD card, the command will take a
>> while to run depending on how much data is left to write to the
>> device. Is there way to check how much data is remaining waiting to
>> write to the device?
>
> $ grep "Dirty\|Writeback" /proc/meminfo
>
> And infer from that.

It be a big challenge if the SD write is not the only disk activity!

Jeff
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