On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:23:58 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
What's the difference between using the command "reboot" and let the keyboard trigger the "init 6" to reboot?
I notice I always get the "Filesystem not clean" message having switched over to grml when rebooting. I trigger the reboot via keyboard to issue init 6. Didn't notice so when using Debian Sarge though.
Hm strange. How do you trigger the reboot? Via /etc/inittab? How does your configuration look like?
$ grep -A1 CTRL-ALT-DEL /etc/inittab # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca::ctrlaltdel:/etc/init 6
Can I rely on keyboard/HW triggers for reboot or poweroff, or I'd better type the command? Or, the Grml is more a live system which has skips some steps that normal non-live systems will do when shutdown?
No, a harddisk installation of grml should work as any other harddisk system. If you notice any problems there it's a bug which has to be debugged.
One thing is that recently I have to use bind mount for some testing, and for some weired reasons, I can't even unmount some of the bind mount points manually, especially when the /dev is bind mounted.
However, I've noticed that even I don't do anything, eg, power HD grml up, startx, quit X, reboot, I get "Filesystem not clean" as well. Just for such cases, there are far less inodes to repair.
I'm using the reiserfs systems.
Well, you know:
| <gorny> reiserfs, making files and wives dissapear in an instant
yeah, mika, I know your attitude towards reiserfs. That's why I stated it there. :-) but because of my own experience with ext3 and reiserfs, and my current environment, I have to stick to reiserfs for a while, until I can afford to buy a $20 UPS or something...
I have to say that my grml root fs, which is ext3, didn't seems to need repair. But I can't say it for sure because the repair message fill the screen so quickly even scroll up won't help. However, it shouldn't be necessary because it is more a read-only fs most of the time.