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Posted by Jason on Wednesday July 11, @09:44PMfrom the bsd-has-its-ups-and-downs dept. It is very important that you do not just turn the power off on your FreeBSD system (or any Unix system). You need to execute the shutdown command to ensure that your system is brought down properly. When you issue the shutdown or halt commands, the system kills all processes, writes all unsaved information to disk (syncing the disks), dismounts the filesystems and marks them as clean. These are all very important items and will ensure that your system comes back up properly when restarted. There are several ways to execute a shutdown on your system and all of them require you to be logged in as root. Login: root Password: ******* The simplest form is to type: halt This will bring the system down properly. You will know the system is down when you see the following messages: The operating system has halted. Press any key to reboot. At this point you may either turn the power off, or press any key (enter for instance) and the system will reboot itself and start loading the operating system again. Another command that performs the exact same function as the halt command is: shutdown -h now The -h switch stands for halt. When this command is executed, the system will display the same shutdown messages as above. If for some reason you would like to shutdown and instantly reboot your system, there are a couple of fast commands to do that as well: reboot or shutdown -r now Note:To learn more about shutdown and other commands, refer to the man pages. man shutdown < | >
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TIP: Use the shutdown command
