linux.gentoo.user

2008/3/28, Dale :
> 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.

You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Regards,

Daniel
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