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diff --git a/sys-utils/sync.8 b/sys-utils/sync.8 deleted file mode 100644 index f8bb704ff..000000000 --- a/sys-utils/sync.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License -.TH SYNC 8 "20 November 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" -.SH NAME -sync \- flush Linux filesystem buffers -.SH SYNOPSIS -.B sync -.SH DESCRIPTION -.B sync -executes -.BR sync (2), -which flushes the filesystem buffers to disk. -.B sync -should be called before the processor is halted in an unusual manner (i.e., -before causing a kernel panic when debugging new kernel code). In general, -the processor should be halted using the -.BR reboot "(8), or " halt (8) -commands, which will attempt to put the system in a quiescent state before -calling -.BR sync (2). - -From Linus: "Note that -.B sync -is only guaranteed to schedule the dirty blocks for writing: it can -actually take a short time before all the blocks are finally written. If -you are doing the -.B sync -with the expectation of killing the machine soon after, please take this -into account and sleep for a few seconds. [The -.BR reboot (8) -command takes these precautions.] -.SH "SEE ALSO" -.BR sync (2), -.BR update (8), -.BR reboot (8), -.BR halt (8) -.SH AUTHOR -Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi) |