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category-title: Intermediate commands
tags: sync disk write completion
author: Gianmarco De Vita
title: sync
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<p>
The <code>sync</code> utility force the completion of pending disk writes.</p>

<pre>
sync
</pre>

<p>
This command can be used to verify that there are no pending disk writes,
so that all the operations are completed, before the processor is stopped by other
commands.
</p>