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category-page: intermediate
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category-title: Intermediate commands
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tags: sync disk write completion
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author: Gianmarco De Vita
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title: sync
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previous-page: pages/cmd/interm/strings.html
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next-page: pages/cmd/interm/tar.html
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The <code>sync</code> utility force the completion of pending disk writes.</p>
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<pre>
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sync
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</pre>
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This command can be used to verify that there are no pending disk writes,
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so that all the operations are completed, before the processor is stopped by other
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commands.
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