"Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Why wouldn't the 'sync' command be effective in this scenario? I'm > not > sure if it only flushes the write buffers or not. I have no idea why it doesn't work. To me, it looks like a bug. Bye, Axel.