On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > > No, I primarily wanted to play with partitions. But maybe there's some way > to tell Linux to sync the block caches. Will have a look. > > CU, Ingo > > Why wouldn't the 'sync' command be effective in this scenario? I'm not sure if it only flushes the write buffers or not. - DH