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To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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Subject: Re: DDB - sync 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 16:03:08 -0700
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On Sat, 03 May 1997 18:42:59 -0400 
 dennis <dennis@etinc.com> wrote:

 > How do you sync the disk before rebooting from a panic into DDB?
 > is there an "exit" command which does this? You used to be able
 > to call panic and have it sync before pressing reset.

...under NetBSD, I use "continue" ... it syncs the disks, does a
crash dump, and happily reboots.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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