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Or run `sync` after the copy "finishes" -- less focused, but very easy to do.

• mkesper 2y ago
  The article states this doesn't change anything.
• throwway120385 2y ago
  sync is not guaranteed to do anything. And sometimes it does way more than it should. Direct I/O semantics are the correct thing here because it bypasses the cache entirely. I've had a lot of issues writing partition and disk images using DD on modern Linux systems because of caching. And these all kept happening even though I would use `sync` like you describe. But setting oflag=direct resolved all of the issues I was having.