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All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
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@(#)sync.8 4.1 (Berkeley) 04/27/85
SYNC 8 "4/1/81"
C 4 NAME
sync - update the super block
SYNOPSIS
sync DESCRIPTION
Sync executes the
sync system primitive.
Sync can be called to insure all disk writes have been completed before the
processor is halted in a way not suitably done by
reboot (8) or
halt (8). See sync (2) for details on the system primitive.
"SEE ALSO"
sync(2), halt(8), reboot(8), update(8)