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    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, June 08, 2025 07:09:25


    My problem stems from video file writes to a USB stick
    The popup dialog says "copy complete" long before it has, and if my
    stick doesn't poses an indicator LED I can't tell if the copy has ended.
    Is there a process that monitors the buffering and actual completion?

    Regards
    --
    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.88-desktop-3.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64


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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, June 08, 2025 17:54:17
    On Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:09:25 -0400, faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    My problem stems from video file writes to a USB stick
    The popup dialog says "copy complete" long before it has, and if my
    stick doesn't poses an indicator LED I can't tell if the copy has ended.
    Is there a process that monitors the buffering and actual completion?

    Use htop. Run it, press f6 to display the list of fields to sort by. Use the cursor up/down keys to
    highlight STATE, and press enter to sort the display by the state column.

    In the column labled S (short for state), see if there are any processes displaying a state of
    D (short for device wait). If there are, it isn't finished.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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