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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: How many times do you "sync"?
Message-ID: <2477@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 12:59:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 12:59:13 1984
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My normal practice is to type "sync" once, followed by
a slow count to 5, before shutting the system down.
In more than three years as a system administrator,
I have never had any problems that I would think could
be traced to blocks not being written out.