Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:25:07 -0400 From: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> To: bv@wjv.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process Message-ID: <2d95ac20bcbeb4d903da1a7ca2daf5d2@ee.ryerson.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050716150302.GA7695@wjv.com> References: <20050714223127.34EDB16A422@hub.freebsd.org> <20050715150829.GC76303@wjv.com> <ce7d0cc89022dbb4f4815a43cb64172a@ee.ryerson.ca> <20050716150302.GA7695@wjv.com>
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On Jul 16, 2005, at 11:03, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> Actually I saw that documented a very very long time ago in
> an Intel Unix manual.
It's present in more recent documentation. :)
The sync utility can be called to ensure that all disk writes have
been
completed before the processor is halted in a way not suitably
done by
reboot(8) or halt(8).
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sync&sektion=8
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