From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 23:54:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts1.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32D114FFA for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martyg@sympatico.ca) Received: from martingignac ([206.172.133.74]) by tomts3-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.07 201-229-116-107) with SMTP id <20000123061638.DDEK627.tomts3-srv.bellnexxia.net@martingignac>; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:16:38 -0500 Message-ID: <000f01bf6569$689c2be0$4a85acce@martingignac> From: "Martin Gignac" To: "David Fuchs" , "Oren Sarig" Cc: References: <000701bf6501$016a9c80$40e3acce@martingignac><3889FA37.8A85F7B2@bezeqint.net.il> <003b01bf650a$0cc245c0$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca> Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del? Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:16:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've done ctrl-alt-delete many times and fsck has never found the drives to have been unproperly unmounted during shutdown... -Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Fuchs" To: "Oren Sarig" ; "Martin Gignac" Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del? > Oh no... I hope you guys aren't all pressing ctrl-alt-delete because it's > faster! > > When you do a ctrl-alt-delete, your drives aren't being unmounted properly. > The program fsck (File System Consistency Check) will find that the drives > weren't properly unmounted and therefore it will scan each partition of > every drive for errors. It will then reboot your computer in order to > properly re-mount the drives. > > I did a ctrl-alt-delete once and had to wait 20 minutes before my system was > functional again. (tip: not good for business) > > Stick to reboot and you'll have less trouble in the future. > > -David Fuchs > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Oren Sarig > To: Martin Gignac > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 10:43 > Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and > ctrl-alt-del? > > > > I don't think there is a difference in the proccess that gets > > executed, but if I telnet to another machine, and I use shutdown -r > > now, the other machine would reboot, but if I press ctrl-alt-del, my > > machine would reboot. That's the main differnce, afaik. > > > > -- > > Oren Sarig > > sarig@bezeqint.net.il > > > > Martin Gignac wrote: > > > > > > Is there a difference between a reboot using the 'reboot' (or > shutdown -r) > > > command, and one using the ctrl-alt-delete key combination? I find that > > > ctrl-alt-delete always seems to shutdown faster than 'reboot'... > > > > > > -Martin > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message