Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:18:40 -0800, briand wrote:

> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
> system.
> 
> Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or suspend which tries and
> save the state of the machine to disk or ram.  This was simply setting
> the machine to low power state.
> 
> I've been going through the list archives and can't find the command.
> 
> Anyone know what I'm talking about ? ;-)

man pm-hibernate

But the only two methods I'm aware of are "suspension" (suspend to ram) 
and "hibernation" (suspend to disk), but nothing in between :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón