How do I get my disk powered down gracefully on my desktop during system shutdown

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Fri May 19 03:07:06 UTC 2006


owen at metamachine.com wrote:
> They only suggest you use runlevel 3 until things are working well for you -
> easier to recover from problems.  Once things are working well you can go
> back to runlevel 5.
>
> But it would be nice if there was a way to do a shutdown from a logged out
> runlevel 3 login prompt.  ctl-alt-delete does a reboot and you have to
> catch it before it starts coming back up and hold down the power button.
>
> That business about stopping the hard drive before power goes off isn't
> strictly necessary, modern drives catch power down and swing the heads
> back to the safe zone automatically.
>
>
>   // Wally
>
>   
ctl-alt-del is controlled by /etc/inittab, just change to this

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -h now

Now it will shutdown instead of rebooting.

Regards,

John







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