From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 8:14:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0222937B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FE043E65 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:14:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9PFEIqB030071; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:14:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9PFEH0i030068; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:14:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Matthew Seaman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to add space References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024161852.00aa3800@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024125901.00aad960@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024125901.00aad960@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024161852.00aa3800@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024181808.00aae038@pop51.bellnet.ca> <20021024225500.GC1424@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 25 Oct 2002 11:14:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20021024225500.GC1424@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <448z0mr1o7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Seaman writes: > That's the difference between 'shutdown now' or doing what I was > thinking of, which is to reboot, hit the any key during the ten second > count down and issue 'boot -s' at the boot manager prompt. Years of > updating machines to the latest -STABLE has engrained that into my > head as *the* way to get to single-user mode, but you're right: > 'shutdown now' works too. For updating to a new kernel, you definitely want to keep doing the whole shutdown-and-reboot, because you want to be booting under your *newly*built* kernel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message