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Re: [cobalt-users] Delete Server Mail Cache



On Wednesday 04 September 2002 01:45 pm, William J.A. Brillinger wrote:
> sync;sync;sync?

Sorry, old hand notation for "those" who have been around nix for a while.  A 
single one does the job, but on the old Vax and PDP-11 systems (with washing 
machine drives) one always did the sync three times to make sure the drives 
were updated before/after doing any major action.

Based on the size of the file he is referencing, there is going to be a lot 
of "disk" activity (move of data to free space) when this happens...


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Larry Smith
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