View Single Post
Old 7th June 2008
phoenix's Avatar
phoenix phoenix is offline
Risen from the ashes
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 696
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by tad1214 View Post
Basic but took me a few hours.

reboot - reboots the system
shutdown -p now - Powers down the system rather than halting it.
df -h - Shows the amount of disk free in a human readable format.
We really should be pointing people away from directly using halt and reboot. They don't do a lot of safety checks.

shutdown should be used to halt (-h), poweroff (-p), or reboot (-r) a running system.
__________________
Freddie

Help for FreeBSD: Handbook, FAQ, man pages, mailing lists.
Reply With Quote