whywork Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 (edited) Without Internet searching - no cheating. What does the "sync" command line instruction do? e.g. sudo sync First to reply correctly is crowned as Nerd-for-the-Day. Edited September 13, 2023 by whywork Link to comment
MrBill Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 is sync actually still around? my memory is that it flushes the disk cache to disk, but doesn't shutdown. Not sure why anyone needs that with eisy et al. When we ran a live multi-user system it was used in backup scripts after all users had signed out or been forced off. Link to comment
larryllix Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 I admit I had to look that one up. I have never used it before. It sounds like a misnomer for that command. "flush" would have been a better name IMHO. Don't forget to run "toiletpaper" just before "flush" and then "sync". Link to comment
xlurkr Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 And I think "droptrow", followed by "sitdown" should be run before "toiletpaper". -Tom Link to comment
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