Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 13:35:24 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <dmaddox@scsn.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shutdown Message-ID: <19970511133524.17933@cola65.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970511124125.248D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Sun, May 11, 1997 at 12:42:44PM -0400 References: <13277.199705111623@nice.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970511124125.248D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
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On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 12:42:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 1997, Mr M P Searle wrote:
>
> > Would it break anything if the X server was kept running while shutting down?
> > (Nothing else, just that one process. The root window is set before starting
> > 'halt' - and maybe set again after the 5 seconds.)
> >
> > Michael, who has too much free time...
>
> I think that would mean that /usr couldn't be dismounted, which would mean
> that you wouldn't get a clean shutdown on the /usr filesystem, and it
> would end up being fsck'ed on startup. I have a big disk, and wouldn't
> want to have to wait on that all the time.
FWIW, I use 'shutdown -h now' all the time from an xterm, and have
never observed any ill-effects... Everything appears to shut down
cleanly, and all the FSs apparently dismount just fine.
YMMV :-)
--
Donald J. Maddox
(dmaddox@scsn.net)
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