On 07/19/2016 09:10 PM, David Ryskalczyk via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I agree, they weren't necessary. It's partly habit for me when dealing with old UNIX boxes.
I'm going to be the dissenting voice, I will agree it shouldn't be necessary. But in less than 1% of the machines I reboot (probably 0.01% to be honest) the sync has save my file system. It usually comes into play when there's a bug in the FS software and the shutdown occurs. You know when the shutdown hangs and you don't get those kind reassuring words '$ ' ;-). It actually occurs when the filesystem is being unmounted. I've seen this occur on a few USB drives. Understand that I sometimes play with the beta software. Guess I got what I deserved. ;-) And yes, it's habit, when I was a young sys admin and taught the ways of the long beard. PS: I am also of the habit of doing a ^Zwr mem<Enter> on cisco routers when I edit the config editor. And a ^X^W^X^C in emacs. I've never really gotten the hang of vi, so that one I need to think about. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies