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5 .\" @(#)sync.2 6.2 (Berkeley) 6/30/85
7 .TH SYNC 2 "June 30, 1985"
10 sync, fsync \- update dirty buffers and super-block
22 causes all information in the file system
23 buffers that should be on disk to be written out.
24 This includes modified super blocks,
25 modified i-nodes, and delayed block I/O.
28 does the same thing, but only for the blocks associated with a specific
29 file descriptor. Under minix, currently the two calls do the same thing.