Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:12:38 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proper shutdown. Message-ID: <20010126121238.B3533@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <001201c087db$e1071820$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>; from "Peter Brezny" on Fri Jan 26 13:06:39 GMT 2001 References: <001201c087db$e1071820$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 26), Peter Brezny said: > 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. "shutdown now" simply brings the system into single-user mode. The filesystems are still mounted read-write at this point. Try "shutdown -h now" to halt the system or "shutdown -p now" to power the system off. See the shutdown manpage for more options. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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