Flushing drives

[Jay]

Hi Jenny. You might be looking for the 'sync' command.

~Jay



On 20 Apr 2003, Jenny Charlene wrote:

> And not in the toilet!
>
> I have a loopback encrypted partition that I keep my email and such on,
> but Evolution doesn't seems to leave some data in the buffer, so I have
> to log out to and re-login to unmount it. Not a problem if I'm shutting
> down the machine, but annoying if I'm not.
>
> System is RH8, so I was wondering if someone knew a command that would
> force the system to write out any data, and "unbusy" the partition, so
> it'll dismount. I'm using "umount -d" already, but it's not doing what I
> want. The "-f" option as root doesn't seem to work either.
>

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~Jay