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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:58:03 +0100
From: Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>
Subject: Re: how to sync / commit data to disk?
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To: Peter Gervai <grinapo@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:16:59PM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote:
> My educated guess would be
> xfs_freeze -f
> sync
> xfs_freeze -u
> 
> but I give a large chance to be wrong about it.
> 
> Ideas?

I usually unmount the /boot partition if I need to reinstall grub (which
is a rare event). Since nowadays klogd doesn't keep /boot/System.map
open anymore, there is no reason not to do an umount/grub install/mount
sequence.

Iustin