SYNC

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

sync - flush file system buffers  

SYNOPSIS

sync [OPTION]  

DESCRIPTION

Force changed blocks to disk, update the super block.

--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
 

AUTHOR

Written by Jim Meyering.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report sync bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 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.  

SEE ALSO

sync(2)

The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sync programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils aqsync invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.