UPDATE

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: April 27, 1985
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NAME

update - periodically update the super block  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/update  

DESCRIPTION

Update is a program that executes the sync(2) primitive every 30 seconds. This insures that the file system is fairly up to date in case of a crash. This command should not be executed directly, but should be executed out of the initialization shell command file.  

SEE ALSO

sync(2), sync(8), init(8), rc(8)


 

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