Peter Iannarelli writes: > You could put a directive in your crontab to issue a sync > every 5 minutes of every hour of every day. That's not quite the issue - Linux syncronizes its buffers whenever it has a chance anyway. What I'd like to know is whether there is a way to minimize the damage in the case of a "reset" when the machine was busy. -- Alex Shnitman shnitman@mail.jct.ac.il, alexsh@linux.org.il http://alexsh.home.ml.org