freebsd man page for fsync

FSYNC(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  FSYNC(1)

NAME
     fsync -- synchronize a file's in-core state with that on disk

SYNOPSIS
     fsync file ...

DESCRIPTION
     The fsync utility causes all the modified data and meta-data of all the files named on the command line to be written to a permanent storage
     device.

     The fsync utility uses the fsync(2) function call.

EXIT STATUS
     If an error occurs, the fsync utility proceeds to the next file, and exits >0.  Otherwise, it exits 0.

SEE ALSO
     fsync(2), sync(2), syncer(4), halt(8), reboot(8)

HISTORY
     The fsync command first appeared in FreeBSD 4.3.

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								 January 25, 2005							       BSD