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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sync translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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)

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sync>
or available locally via: info (aq(coreutils) sync invocation(aq