Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

[Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com>]

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Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
> Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
> >> You're not shutting down the system in a clean way.
> >
> > You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing?
>
> It's more like pulling the plug, isn't it? At least none of
> the shutdown scripts is run.  And if you don't run ALT + SysRq + U,
> or if it just doesn't work (like hangs at some (remote) fs),

But nobody proposed _not_ to run ALT + SysRq + U, Neil even proposed ALT + 
SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted.

> filesystems aren't even unmounted and thus dirty and thus need
> a fsck run on next boot.

XFS to the rescue :-)

Bye...

	Dirk
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