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From: Chandrabose Aravindan <nouser@nohost.nodomain>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Powering Down
Date: 10 Jul 1997 16:56:58 +0200
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
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jay@dixonssurgical.co.uk (Jay Dixon) writes:

> I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.1 and am shutting down using the
> "shutdown now" command as directed in the handbook.
> 
> When I power back on again I am told that "/" was not unmounted
> properley and all the flags on my disk are dirty.
> 
> How should I be shutting down to power off?

"shutdown now" only takes you to the single user mode.  Use "shutdown
-h now" to halt the system and power off.  "shutdown -r now" will
reboot the system.

-- 
arvind <URL:http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~arvind/>