ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place?
the command is as root:
shutdown -h now

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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:

> Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me
> at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any
> commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm
> finished.  Apparantly that is a bad idea.
> 
> I'm guessing there must be a way to get debian to shutdown properly so I
> don't have to wait for everything to uncompress and unmount before it can
> boot up again(?).
> 
> If so, what is the command to shutdown?  Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to
> cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory
> checking?  That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say
> the system was not properly unmounted.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andre'
> 
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