ultrix man page for sync

sync(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   sync(1)

Name
       sync - update the super block

Syntax
       /bin/sync

Description
       The command executes the system primitive.  The command can be called to insure all disk writes have been completed before the processor is
       halted in a way not suitably done by or

       See for details on the system primitive.

See Also
       fsync(2), sync(2), halt(8), reboot(8), update(8)

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