Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!allegra!alice!rabbit!ark 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 Article-I.D.: rabbit.2477 Posted: Fri Feb 3 12:59:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 04:08:58 EST References: <200@iwu1c.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 6 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.