/* * flushb.c --- This routine flushes the disk buffers for a disk * * Copyright 1997, 2000, by Theodore Ts'o. * * WARNING: use of flushb on some older 2.2 kernels on a heavily loaded * system will corrupt filesystems. This program is not really useful * beyond for benchmarking scripts. * * %Begin-Header% * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public * License. * %End-Header% */ #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/mount.h> #include "../misc/nls-enable.h" /* For Linux, define BLKFLSBUF if necessary */ #if (!defined(BLKFLSBUF) && defined(__linux__)) #define BLKFLSBUF _IO(0x12,97) /* flush buffer cache */ #endif const char *progname; static void usage(void) { fprintf(stderr, _("Usage: %s disk\n"), progname); exit(1); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd; progname = argv[0]; if (argc != 2) usage(); fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY, 0); if (fd < 0) { perror("open"); exit(1); } /* * Note: to reread the partition table, use the ioctl * BLKRRPART instead of BLKFSLBUF. */ #ifdef BLKFLSBUF if (ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0) < 0) { perror("ioctl BLKFLSBUF"); exit(1); } return 0; #else fprintf(stderr, _("BLKFLSBUF ioctl not supported! Can't flush buffers.\n")); return 1; #endif }