Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:16:30 -0500 From: "Martin Gignac" <martyg@sympatico.ca> To: "David Fuchs" <beastie@beastie.net>, "Oren Sarig" <sarig@bezeqint.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del? Message-ID: <000f01bf6569$689c2be0$4a85acce@martingignac> References: <000701bf6501$016a9c80$40e3acce@martingignac><3889FA37.8A85F7B2@bezeqint.net.il> <003b01bf650a$0cc245c0$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca>
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I've done ctrl-alt-delete many times and fsck has never found the drives to have been unproperly unmounted during shutdown... -Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Fuchs" <beastie@beastie.net> To: "Oren Sarig" <sarig@bezeqint.net>; "Martin Gignac" <martyg@sympatico.ca> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Is there a difference between 'reboot' command and ctrl-alt-del? > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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