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SubjectRe: Forcing an immediate reboot
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 10/15/05, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > > > Is there any way to force an immediate reboot as if to push the reset
> > > > button in software? Got a remote server that i need to reboot and
> > > > shutdown isn't working.
> > >
> > > If it has Oopsed, and the "reboot" command does not work, then all bets
> > > are off - kernel memory has probably been corrupted.
> > >
> > > Get one of those powerstrips that you can telnet into and power cycle
> > > things remotely.
> >
> > If it has sysrq compiled in as root just do:
> >
> > echo s > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> > echo u > /proc/sysre-trigger
> > echo s > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> What the purpose of the second sync?

Allows any i/o initiated between the first sync and the remount r/o to
complete. Remember that r/o mounting doesn't stop i/o. It only stops you
from writing to the fs at the vfs layer. Once a write/modification has
entered the fs driver it will get written no matter what, unless the
"reboot" sysrq is triggered in which case the kernel just reboots
immediately.

Maybe it is just paranoia on my part but I have gotten used to hitting
Alt+PrtScr+S, +U, +S, +B so I do it automatically.

Best regards,

Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
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