SYNC(1)

NAME
sync - Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage

SYNOPSIS
sync [-f|--file-system] [-d|--data] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]

DESCRIPTION
Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage

OPTIONS

-f, --file-system
    sync the file systems that contain the files (Linux and Windows only)

-d, --data
    sync only file data, no unneeded metadata (Linux only)

-h, --help
    Print help

-V, --version
    Print version

[files]

EXTRA
## Examples Flush all pending write operations on all disks: sync Flush all pending write operations on a single file to disk: sync {{path/to/file}} Flush writes and drop filesystem caches (Linux only): sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Flush disk writes and attempts to clear inactive memory and filesystem caches (macOS only): sync; sudo purge > The examples are provided by the [tldr-pages project](https://tldr.sh) under the [CC BY 4.0 License](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/LICENSE.md). > > Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.

VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.9.0