For Poweroff : shutdown -p now For reboot : shutdown -r now Are recommended.
On Tue 2 Apr, 2019, 7:28 PM Mayuresh, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using poweroff command (without any arguments) to power off a > laptop on NetBSD 8.0_RC1 amd64. > > Recently I installed 8.0 on a usb stick and notice that poweroff now > reboots the laptop instead of powering off. > > The /etc/rc.shutdown is not altered by me and neither it is different > between 8.0_RC1 and 8.0. > > Do not know whether it matters - 8.0 boots from a usb stick and 8.0_RC1 > from native hard drive. > > > An aside: > > The laptop hard drive had started showing "error reading fsbn". I presume > it means disk will need a replacement soon. Hence as a precaution I > switched to a usb stick based installation. > > The drive is barely 3 years old and also hosts Linux which has not shown > any warnings. Am I right in interpretation of above error or is there > something I can try with the hard drive to extend its useful life? > > Mayuresh > > >
