Flash unmounting on halt

When there's a Flash-drive mounted to system with data that is still in cache (after data was moved from HDD to Flash), is it 100% safe to "# halt" Arch system? I always unmount Flash before shutting Arch down so it won't turn off before all the data transfered from cache to Flash-drive. Is there any possibility that Arch won't move all the cached data to Flash in time before shutting PC down? Or it waits strictly untill the cache is empty?

Arch won't shutdown until the filesystems are properly unmounted, so your data should be safe.

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respect....
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Amy,
Find out why that annoying light is flashing.
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Sad to hear that. I just began working with CS4 and found that copy paste from FreeHand to Flash CS4 works fine. Hope I never need to badgrade to CS5.
You may be interested to hear that there is a community actively fighting for FreeHand, in case you do not know about it, and tell your friends:
www.freefreehand.org
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