sync
SafeFlush write buffers
sync
Flushes pending writes to disk — before yanking USB media, after big dd jobs, before hard resets.
Examples
sync && echo doneWait for the flush to finish
Syntax
sync [file]
Before you run it
Flush only.
The same reference, with no signal at all
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