On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:50:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Question: What is the 'sync' for? I haven't done this before and am > wondering what I've been missing. > sync forces the kernel to finish writing to disk.
The man page says, "Force changed blocks to disk, update the super block." (And not much else.) I seem to remember this used to be in the kernel Makefile. (That's where I first heard of it.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
