From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jf95u-00056X-SX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:33:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74A9DE0789; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost03.isp.att.net (fmailhost03.isp.att.net [207.115.11.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EC8E0789 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.70.67] (host-216-78-70-67.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.70.67]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc03) with ESMTP id <20080328073342H0300i1gb0e>; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:33:44 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.70.67] Message-ID: <47EC9F50.5070503@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:33:36 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080209 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb8c349c-1338-4ea2-967c-4949793d1afb X-Archives-Hash: b57baf91b8a725e9298fb4fbdb846161 Hi, I had a problem the other day where I needed to shutdown, like in a real hurry. My power supply was packed up and checking out without paying the bill. I was in KDE and just selected logout then shutdown from the menu. Is there a faster way to shutdown so that at least the file system is clean? Some fancy keystroke pattern or a short command maybe? I run foldingathome and that pesky "waiting 17 seconds" thing was torture. I need it to bypass that little "feature" as well. I hope I never run into this again but just in case I would like a pointer. It did make it to the point where it said it was unmounting file systems but one partition must have been mounted since it was well, pissed, about not being unmounted cleanly. ;-) Thank goodness for reiserfs coming to the rescue. After putting in a new P/S all is well again. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list