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These commands will work with most (if not all) distributions
of Linux as well as most implementations of Unix. They're the
commands that everybody knows. To be able to navigate in
Linux, you should become familiar with these.
Shutting Down and Rebooting
To shut down your system, type shutdown -h
now, which tells the shutdown
program to begin system halt immediately. You can also tell
it to halt the system at a later time, I think, but you'll
have to consult the shutdown manual page for
that (man shutdown).
To do a reboot, you can either type
reboot or shutdown
-r. You can also use the famous Ctrl-Alt-Delete
combination to reboot, which you might already be familiar
with.
Shutting down and restarting properly (as described above)
will prevent your filesystem from being damaged. Filesystem
damage is the most obvious of the consequences, but there are
probably other things out there that I don't know about. The
point is, shut down your system properly.
Copyright © 1997-1999 Joshua Go
(jtg@computers.iwz.com). All rights reserved. Permission
to use, distribute, and copy this document is hereby granted.
You may modify this document as long as credit to me is
given.
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