On 19/02/10 13:41, Daniel Pittman wrote: > ] mount / -o remount,rw > ] passwd root # ...and give it a good password > ] mount / -o remount,ro > ] sync; sync; sync > # wait thirty seconds, because paranoia never hurts > ] sync; sync; sync; reboot
> Just be aware that you don't get a lot of nice things like, oh, some > of the "flush on shutdown" behaviour that you do in a normal boot. Shutting down from the GUI, or typing 'halt' isn't magic. It doesn't magically do anything that sync doesn't. How else do you think that the logic works when you shut down? `mount / -o remount,ro ; sync ; halt_for_real` is pretty safe.
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