Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Michael Schmarck
Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:30 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck:
>
>> You're not shutting down the system in a clean way.
>
> You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing?

It's more like pulling the plug, isn't it? At least none of
the shutdown scripts is run. And if you don't run ALT + SysRq + U,
or if it just doesn't work (like hangs at some (remote) fs),
filesystems aren't even unmounted and thus dirty and thus need
a fsck run on next boot.

Michael

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