[plug] backup script

[James Devenish]

In message <200311261201.22256.T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au>
on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:01:22PM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:03:18PM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > > I mean, one sync flushes filesystem buffers,
> > man 2 sync
> "No manual entry for sync in section 2"

<blank stare/> I find that hard to believe :-) Oh well.
Perhaps try <http://www.linuxcentral.com/linux/man-pages/sync.2.html>.

> Wouldn't "sync; sleep 2; sync" be better?

<shrug/> Quite possibly => probably, but I have no clue.

> This sounds like a tradition from the days

That's true.


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