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| author | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2014-09-18 05:20:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2014-09-18 05:20:09 +0000 |
| commit | a93e55ea7300ce369fb36750f6526bdcedeea3e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 30c31796fe0461da93930254d8bb65f5c0b8b7d2 /doc/sg_xcopy.8 | |
| parent | 992e601d27bdd94162f35a1f885e5f541186b1b9 (diff) | |
| download | sg3_utils-a93e55ea7300ce369fb36750f6526bdcedeea3e1.tar.gz | |
sg_vpd: more TPC VPD page decoding; sg_ses: handle element descriptor names that count a trailing NULL
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@607 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
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diff --git a/doc/sg_xcopy.8 b/doc/sg_xcopy.8 index 1dfdbae7..1f8935cb 100644 --- a/doc/sg_xcopy.8 +++ b/doc/sg_xcopy.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH SG_XCOPY "8" "March 2014" "sg3_utils\-1.38" SG3_UTILS +.TH SG_XCOPY "8" "September 2014" "sg3_utils\-1.40" SG3_UTILS .SH NAME sg_xcopy \- copy data to and from files and devices using SCSI EXTENDED COPY (XCOPY) @@ -254,6 +254,14 @@ when set, equivalent to 'oflag=append'. When clear the action is to overwrite the existing file (if it exists); this is the default. See the 'append' flag. .SH NOTES +Copying data behind an Operating System's back can cause problems. In the +case of Linux, users should look at this link: +http://linux\-mm.org/Drop_Caches +.br +This command sequence may be useful: +.br + sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches +.PP Various numeric arguments (e.g. \fISKIP\fR) may include multiplicative suffixes or be given in hexadecimal. See the "NUMERIC ARGUMENTS" section in the sg3_utils(8) man page. |