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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!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!newshost.uni-koblenz.de!not-for-mail From: Chandrabose Aravindan <nouser@nohost.nodomain> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Powering Down Date: 10 Jul 1997 16:56:58 +0200 Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Lines: 16 Message-ID: <x490zf551h.fsf@nohost.nodomain> References: <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pinthus.uni-koblenz.de X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44506 jay@dixonssurgical.co.uk (Jay Dixon) writes: > 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" only takes you to the single user mode. Use "shutdown -h now" to halt the system and power off. "shutdown -r now" will reboot the system. -- arvind <URL:http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~arvind/>