Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
As root, do shutdown -h now. where now means shutting down the machine immediately.
For more info, man shutdown.
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:50:52PM -0500, André Bell wrote:
> Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me
> at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any
> commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm
> finished. Apparantly that is a bad idea.
>
> I'm guessing there must be a way to get debian to shutdown properly so I
> don't have to wait for everything to uncompress and unmount before it can
> boot up again(?).
>
> If so, what is the command to shutdown? Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to
> cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory
> checking? That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say
> the system was not properly unmounted.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andre'
>
>
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