On 11/7/18 4:06 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > On 11/07/2018 03:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 11/8/18 6:52 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >>> >>> On 11/07/2018 01:52 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >>>> >>>> This is the dismount part of my script: >>>> >>>> sync; sync >>>> umount $StickTarget >>>> >>>> >>> Calling sync twice? >> Must be an "old" person. It was common practice back in the early >> 1980's to call sync >> twice before shutdown on Solaris. >> Don't ask me why. I was just "done that way". >> > > Okay. I remember enough "don't ask, just do it this way" techniques from > old days that I am certainly prepared to buy this one Again, I believe it was to ensure any background tasks writing to system volumes were "done". The typical command was sync;sync;shutdown -h now or (if you're as ancient as I am) sync;sync;init 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
