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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Powering Down Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:02:23 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33C6F3BF.7741@OntheNet.com.au> References: <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: jay@dixonssurgical.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44289 Jay Dixon wrote: > > Hi All > > 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. > > How should I be shutting down to power off? # shutdown now --> stop timesharing and go to single-user # shutdown -h now --> stop timesharing, shutdown and 'halt' m/c # shutdown -r now --> stop timesharing, shutdown and reboot m/c Of course "now" can be replaced with a valid future time, either absolute (hhmm) or delta (+mm)! There are 'shorthand' versions of these commands, such as "reboot" and simply "halt" but I prefer to use the shutdown command as it gives applications time to exit gracefully. Tony