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I interpreted that as "syncs the disks", as in, flushes the buffers. (which it does, I believe, do.) A failure to suspend from RAM isn't that harmful: it's just
by deathanatos 6y ago
I interpreted that as "syncs the disks", as in, flushes the buffers. (which it does, I believe, do.) A failure to suspend from RAM isn't that harmful: it's just an unscheduled reboot, as if you'd suddenly removed power.
The wording they're responding to is pretty vague: "lose everything". What is "everything"? E.g., the filesystem state is in good order. And even though RAM gets reset, many applications, like Firefox, will usually simply realize what happened, and recover.
- ravi-delia 6y agoI meant the system state when you suspended. You're absolutely right that it's just like an unplanned reboot, which isn't the worst thing in the world, but if (for example) you're doing funny things with tmpfs it can cause issues. Or, if you suspend habitually with unsaved progress, you would be in greater danger of losing it. Neither is enormously important, but it's worth noting.