• Alborlin@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    No , you can’t write it as you don’t have it mounted. You did ? Well it’s not accessible through specific programs (like may be Plex or unusable word like software that saves format file in format unknown to 90% of world) forget about it.

  • federated-guy@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 day ago

    disk cache!
    essentially, i think linux doesn’t write to the disk until you eject it, for situations like a constantly updating file. might be wrong

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      1 day ago

      yep, caching. writing to flash memory used to be painfully slow. this issue has existed with windows since usb storage was invented. early on, windows wouldnt even assign a drive letter correctly (a winworld requirement)… you had to do it manually. so painful.