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Date:      Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:33:40 +0100
From:      Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org>
To:        Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shutdown not shutting down :-(
Message-ID:  <43F84984.8040201@orchid.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <dt9h0g$7tl$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <dt9h0g$7tl$1@sea.gmane.org>

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Matias Surdi wrote:
> Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here.
>=20
> I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do
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> # shutdown now
>=20
> It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path=
=2E
>=20
> I think that this could be something related to the order in which
> partitions are unmounted.
>=20
> Any idea?

Hi Matias,

no, everything is OK. 'shutdown now' brings the system to 'single
user' state. If you want to restart or power down the machine have a
look at man 8 shutdown (especially '-p' or '-r' options).

Also:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-shutdown.h=
tml

Best regards,

Karol


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