how to sync / commit data to disk?
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grub is broken
this comes up all the time, there are various work-arounds but it doesn't change the fact that GRUB IS BROKEN
it would be nice if someone would just address it from that end
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xfs_freeze-f
syncxfs_freeze-u
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sync before freeze (actually, I'm not sure a sync there is necessary but it can't hurt)
Its not necessary (would be a bug if so).
FWIW, this hack can be better achieved in a filesystem independent way by doing a remount,ro ... remount,rw instead of freeze/thaw.
This is the way that I do it - based on info in an earlier posting on this list:
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=112096901910385&w=2>
James Pearson