Merge pull request #63 from coderobe/patch-4

write_zeroes: flush buffers before writing zeroes
archlinux · Oct 15, 2019 · ec46f71 · ec46f71
2 parents 25aeda9 + 734c592
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diff --git a/provision/write_zeroes.sh b/provision/write_zeroes.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 set -e
 set -x
 
+# Make sure unwritten data has been flushed beforehand
+sync
 # Write zeros to improve virtual disk compaction.
 zerofile=$(/usr/bin/mktemp /zerofile.XXXXX)
 dd if=/dev/zero of="$zerofile" bs=1M || true