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BSD 4.2  

NAME

fastboot fasthalt - reboot/halt the system without checking the disks  

SYNOPSIS

fastboot [boot-options ]
fasthalt [halt-options ]  

DESCRIPTION

Fastboot and fasthalt are shell scripts which reboot and halt the system without checking the file systems. This is done by creating a file /fastboot then invoking the reboot program. The system startup script, /etc/rc looks for this file and, if present, skips the normal invocation of fsck(8).  

SEE ALSO

halt(8), reboot(8), rc(8)  

HISTORY

The fastboot command appeared in BSD 4.2


 

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