From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 12:41:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA07913 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07907 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA06380; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:41:51 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:41:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: shutdown vs shutdown -r Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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