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Flush all I/O's to disk

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MPERRY

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Is there a command to flush cached I/O out to the actual disk? We have a need to do backup and do not necessarily want to unmound the file system. Is there another way to get the cache emptied out to disk????? (aix 4.3.3)
 
Execute "sync" command twice or thrice
 
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