From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 10: 7:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (lists.sysadmin-inc.com [209.16.228.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07D937B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:07:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from wkst ([209.16.228.145]) by virtual.sysadmin-inc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA25042 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:07:35 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Peter Brezny" To: Subject: proper shutdown. Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:06:39 -0800 Message-ID: <001201c087db$e1071820$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is shutdown now the only command needed to properly shutdown a bsd machine? i find that if i do this and turn off the machine once in single user mode, it comes back up with incorrect block counts. What do i need to do to fully prepare the machine to be turned off. i have been known to use reboot and wait until the bios screen comes up, but there's got to be a better way. Peter Brezny SysAdmin Services Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message