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SYNC(1) User Commands SYNC(1)
sync - Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage
sync [OPTION] [FILE]...
Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage
If one or more files are specified, sync only them, or their
containing file systems.
-d, --data
sync only file data, no unneeded metadata
-f, --file-system
sync the file systems that contain the files
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Persistence guarantees vary per system. See the system calls below
for more details.
Written by Jim Meyering and Giuseppe Scrivano.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sync translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
fdatasync(2), fsync(2), sync(2), syncfs(2)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sync>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sync invocation'
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GNU coreutils 8.27 March 2017 SYNC(1)
Pages that refer to this page: bdflush(2), fsync(2), quotactl(2), sync(2), proc(5), btrfs-filesystem(8)