2008/3/28, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
