NAME¶

sync - flush file system buffers

SYNOPSIS¶

sync [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION¶

Force changed blocks to disk, update the super block.

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

AUTHOR¶

Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report sync bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report sync translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO¶

sync(2)

The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sync programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'sync invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.