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Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD® in 24 Hours
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Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD® in 24 Hours

by Michael Urban, Brian Tiemann
December 2002
Beginner
456 pages
11h 18m
English
Sams
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Importance of Proper System Shutdown

When you have finished using your computer, it is important that you shut it down properly. Because FreeBSD often has several files open and is often doing several things at the same time, you can't simply turn off the power. Doing so could result in serious damage to your file system. Before you turn off your computer, you must issue one of the FreeBSD shutdown commands. This ensures that all running programs are stopped in an orderly fashion, all data has been successfully written to the disks, and all open files have been properly closed. There are several ways to shut down the system, but I'm only going to cover one of the commands here because this is the one you should almost always use. Note that you ...

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