FSYNC(1) BSD General Commands Manual FSYNC(1)NAMEfsync — synchronize a file's in-core state with that on disk
SYNOPSISfsync file ...
DESCRIPTION
The fsync utility causes all the modified data and meta-data of all the
files named on the command line to be written to a permanent storage
device.
The fsync utility uses the fsync(2) function call.
EXIT STATUS
If an error occurs, the fsync utility proceeds to the next file, and
exits >0. Otherwise, it exits 0.
SEE ALSOfsync(2), sync(2), syncer(4), halt(8), reboot(8)HISTORY
The fsync command first appeared in FreeBSD 4.3.
BSD January 25, 2005 BSD