How to reboot from start scripts?

[Steve Flynn]

On 08/10/2007, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
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> So there is really no way to properly shutdown/reboot from single-user
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Does "reboot -n" not do what you'd expect it to do?

If I recall correctly from many moons ago, you don't want to perform a sync
when you've just fsck'd the root filesystem as it would rewrite the bad
superblocks stored in the kernel buffers undoing any work fsck may have just
performed. In these circumstances you'd use "reboot" (or pass a flag to
shutdown) to bypass the sync. This was on SunOS and BSD based systems and
was in a different century however so my memory is a little flaky.

-- 
Steve
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