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Posted: Jan. 03 2008,20:27 QUOTE

Doing sync is a good idea after writing any file to disk when there is a risk that the drive might get disconnected shortly after, or when you otherwise want previous writes to be finished  - otherwise data might still be sitting in the buffer and never have time to get written.

Especially important with slow-writing devices like usb sticks.

umount is supposed to call sync, so the buffer should get flushed on umounting the drive.
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Posted: Jan. 05 2008,03:49 QUOTE

i forgot to mention that this method is only good for target media which has a linux partition e.g ext2.
FAT16/32 partitions do not preserve ownerships nor permissions.
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