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- From: jak@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Jay A. Konigsberg)
- Subject: "The little yellow button" (Was: Reset button? Or shutdown?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.223207.21508@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
- Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.
- References: <1992Nov18.125454.10827@fwi.uva.nl>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 22:32:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.125454.10827@fwi.uva.nl> wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:
- >
- >How safe is the yellow reset button? Is there a possibility of, for example,
- >disk crashes? Or does it shorten the life of other components? Is a proper
- >'shutdown -F' always preferred for a (warm) reboot?
- >
- According to our IBM SE, pushing the "little yellow button" will sync the
- filesystems and perform a proper shutdown/reboot sequence.
-
- I have tested this about 5 times and everything went just fine. On reboot
- fsck did not run, nor did it need to.
-
- As to "the little yellow button"'s effect on the hardware, I don't know.
- But then, thats why I'm posting this reply instead of mailing it.
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- Jay @ SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!jak
- If something is worth doing, it's worth doing correctly.
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