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by yyx 2685 days ago
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSyn...

  people were told 'do several sync commands, typing each by hand'

  But this mutated to just 'sync three times', so of course people started writing 'sync; sync; sync'
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sgt 2685 days ago
I still type sync (just once) before I reboot. Just a habit.
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noir_lord 2685 days ago
The last thing I do before I leave my work desktop for the day is

    ./eod.sh && sync && sync
20+ year old habits die hard.
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slavik81 2685 days ago
The only machine I ever developed on that needed a sync before reboot was an ancient SPARC workstation.

I forgot to sync almost every time, but it would always boot after a fsck.

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beefhash 2685 days ago
I always get some kind of error message from dmraid about having been unable to stop the RAID array on shutdown/reboot. I thus manually do a sync(1) in hopes that the data survives. Hasn't failed me thus far, at least.
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