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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend



On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:23:20 +0800, MASOKIS wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> 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 :-?

> how about using "halt"...

"Halt"? I use halt for shutting down (shutdown -h) or restarting 
(shutdown -r) the system but not for going to sleep or hibernate the 
machine :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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