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You work as the Network Administrator for McNeil Inc. The company has a Unix-based network. You want to run a command that forces all the unwritten blocks in the buffer cache to be written to the disk
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Advanced Mac & Linux Forensics
Question
You work as the Network Administrator for McNeil Inc. The company has a Unix-based network. You want to run a command that forces all the unwritten blocks in the buffer cache to be written to the disk. Which of the following Unix commands can you use to accomplish the task?
Options
- Atune2fs
- Bsync
- Cswapoff
- Dswapon
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Topics
#Unix commands#sync command#buffer cache#disk write operations