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- From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.122306.6328@investor.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 12:23:06 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.041747.10597@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <1992Sep7.215151.2517@metrosoft.com> <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
- Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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- In article <1992Sep8.105655.712@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >
- >Color me clueless if you like, but hearing this two times in
- >quick succession prompts me to ask what is so all-fired
- >awful about rebooting a computer? Sure, with a large lab, a
- >complex network, or many users all engaged in important
- >mission-critical tasks :-), there are obvious reasons why it
- >could inconvenience people. (Try waiting out the four hours
- >it takes to bring up a large Vax cluster from backup tapes.)
- >
- >Neither above poster reveals their standaloneness, but
-
- This is a good point. I run a standalone system and find jumping to the
- monitor and rebooting to be very quick. I have done this to restore
- swap space. I also use it to turn my scanner, which I do not need most
- of the time, on and off.
-
- This is probably obvious to a lot of NeXT users, but on my office
- system, rebooting forces a full fsck every time while the NeXT checks
- for a normal shutdown and skips fsck, or seems to. Consequently, a
- reboot is really quick. It took me a year to discover this on my own.
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- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us 412-471-5320
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