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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Powering Down
Date: 10 Jul 1997 15:41:43 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST
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:In article <5q35e5$lpr@plains.NoDak.edu>,
:Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> wrote:
:>In article <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk>,
:>Jay Dixon <jay@dixonssurgical.co.uk> wrote:
:>>I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.1 and am shutting down using the
:>>"shutdown now" command as directed in the handbook.
:>>
:>>When I power back on again I am told that "/" was not unmounted
:>>properley and all the flags on my disk are dirty.
:>
:>the command "shutdown now" will put the machine into single user mode.
:>the command "shutdown -h now" will sync the disks and halt the OS (actually
:>puts it in a loop, pressing any key will cause it to reboot). Wait
:>for the message that says it is safe to turn off the machine.
:>
:>--mark.
Out of habit, I always do a 'shutdown -r now' and wait till I see the
BIOS startup screen come up before I shut the machine down, but
'halt' works just as well.
(Out of habit, my fingers also randomly type 'sync<return>sync<return>'
when I am sitting at an idle shell prompt :-). I think I've been hacking
kernels for too long).
-Matt