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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:08:10 +0200
From: Oren Sarig <sarig@bezeqint.net.il>
Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del?
To: David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>
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Actually, ctrl+alt+del in syscons does a drive sync, and shuts down
all proccesses etc. just like shutdown does, and fsck doesn't scan the
drives at boot time.

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Oren Sarig
sarig@bezeqint.net.il

David Fuchs wrote:
> 
> 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 <sarig@bezeqint.net.il>
> To: Martin Gignac <martyg@sympatico.ca>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> 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
> > >
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