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George Potemkin
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> There is no operating system API to accomplish that. the only way is to dismount and remount the filesystem but that deletes all those blocks from the cache. and all open filehandles are lost. While db is still running then the file handles are still opened. In this case the umount command will not dismount a disk but the command will empty system cache first. At least it's true on HP-UX but I guess on other Unix flavors as well.
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