On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 16:48, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Correct on creating the file and its function, but I would *never* use a
> 'reboot' command without using 'sync;sync;sync;reboot'. "reboot" does
> not flush buffers, so if you fail to use the sync in that line, data in
> the buffers may not be written to disk and filesystem or data corruption
> may occur. It _has_ happened.
>From 'man reboot':
If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in
runlevel 0 or 6, in other words when it’s running normally,
shutdown will be invoked instead (with the -h or -r
flag).
So normally, there is no difference.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
