Craig Swanson wrote in a message to All:

 CS> Has anybody else used some other way to sync file systems to
 CS> disk on notebook computers so they can be put to sleep
 CS> without having to worry about the file systems being messed
 CS> up, thus requiring CHKDSK and possibly loosing data, if they
 CS> are turned off?  Or is DosShutdown( 1 ) the only way to do
 CS> this? 

You cannot sync the filesystem into a state where it is, in essence, safe
to abend.  All you achieve by sync is flushing unwritten cache data to the
media. In order to stop the filesystem, you need to close all open files on
that filesystem.  Since even the operating system retains open file handles
into EXE and DLL files at all times it is running, not to mention the
system swap file, it is impossible to stop the filesystem just by flushing
the cache.
 
-- Mike


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