On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:46:47 +0000 J.Witvliet--- via users wrote: > That’s odd. > The data structures in memory should know if the dirty-flag is set or not. You'd think, but for many releases now (long ago it didn't happen) if I have a USB drive plugged in and not even mounted, doing a reboot pauses for a long time till I hear the disk spin up. Not sure the sync waits unless the disk is actually mounted (haven't experimented). _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx