Re: how to sync / commit data to disk?

Iustin Pop
2007-01-23T17:23:05Z

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