Matias Surdi wrote: > Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here. > > I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do > > # shutdown now > > It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path. > > I think that this could be something related to the order in which > partitions are unmounted. > > Any idea?
Hi Matias, no, everything is OK. 'shutdown now' brings the system to 'single user' state. If you want to restart or power down the machine have a look at man 8 shutdown (especially '-p' or '-r' options). Also: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-shutdown.html Best regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org> GPGKey: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc
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