Talk:LPI Linux Certification/LPIC2 Exam 201/Filesystems

"The sync utility can be used to force the change onto the partition, modern filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs sync the partition every time that a change is made so you don't need to issue the command manually."

ext3 and reiserfs are journaling filesystems and unless mounted with the right options definitely will not synchronously write data, only metadata consistency is guaranteed. 217.30.176.249 20:58, 25 July 2007 (UTC)