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GSNA · Question #9

You work as the Network Administrator for XYZ CORP. 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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Linux/Unix System Auditing

Question

You work as the Network Administrator for XYZ CORP. 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

  • Aswapon
  • Btune2fs
  • Cswapoff
  • Dsync

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Topics

#sync command#buffer cache#disk write#Unix commands
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