Re: preventing data loss from power outage

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Chip Rose. wrote:

> much easier.  Question is - how do I manually do a "permanent"
> save/write of these files, *without* constant rebooting?  Can I run a
> program to make it as if I had just rebooted?

Running 'sync' will flush your buffers and sync your disks. You could run
it as a cron job if you aren;t happy with the performance of bdflush.

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
Network Systems Engineer


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