[GRLUG] shutdown -F WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[peyeps at iserv.net]

All right, that's 0 for 2.

The Ubuntu 6.06 I use still supports the -F option.  The 9.04 I have on
this netbook gives no error message when you use the -F option.  However
it does not force the disk check on reboot.

However if you use shutdown now, with no parameters, I get a menue with
the following options.  resume, which brings you back to the login window.

There is also clean, dpkg, fsck, grub and netboot.  I am assuming, and we
know what happens when you assume, that the fsck is the same file check
after 30 boots, and will reset the counter.

Right now with this relatively new machine, there's not a lot on it, and
the file system check doesn't take very long.

The boot on this netbook takes a lot less time than an XP boot, or my
6.06.  It might not be a valid comparison, because the 6.06 is on a
Toshiba laptop bought in 2006, and this machine is a new Acer Aspire.   It
does take a little longer after login than the old 6.06.

> I remember the "-F" option too,
> but don't see it in the shutdown
> man page, or the init man page.
>
> Ubuntu 9.04
>
> I haven't actually tried it.
>
> What distribution are you using?
>
>     -- Bob
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:39 PM, <peyeps at iserv.net> wrote:
>
>> "...know how annoying it can be."
>>
>> I do a shutdown -F a few mounts before the forced so I don't get it when
>> I don't expect it.
>>