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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:41:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   shutdown vs shutdown -r
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960604123633.6276A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>

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Hello!
Someone reported earlier that `shutdown now' results in unclean 
filesystems.  

Other than the obvious reboot, what is the difference between `shutdown' 
and `shutdown -r'?  A friend of mine has a Linux box that he did this on 
and it killed the filesystem, presumably because it didn't sync.  does 
the FreeBSD version operate in the same way?  

If it doesn't sync, shoudln't this be fixed?  or at least have this 
behavior relegated to a switch?  Maybe have -r be the default action?

Thanks for any insight.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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