Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:50:46 -0400,
Franz Fellner wrote:
> 
> On Sun Jun 21 09:21:36 2020, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The cards I use are class 10, slow but pretty fast for the type of
> > card.  Generally, I can download several hundred MBs in a minute or
> > two.  Deleting sometimes over a 1,000 pics one at a time just isn't
> > feasible.  That could take a long time.
> 
> That wasn't my intention!
> I thought you should just select one file (remember its name), delete it,
> unmount, remount and see if the file is still there.
> So you can be sure that you really have a different issue than just performance.
> Trying to delete a folder takes ages and you don't see the file names.

Definitely unmount, the sectors sometimes don't write to disk for
quite a while, and your unmount should take a few seconds to more than
a minute and so unmount and wait till it returns, and then remount and
see what happens.

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