--- layout: page category-title: Intermediate commands category-page: intermediate tags: sync disk write completion author: Gianmarco De Vita title: sync previous-page: pages/cmd/interm/ next-page: pages/cmd/interm/ ---

The sync utility force the completion of pending disk writes.

sync
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.