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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@pla...>
Subject: [9fans] turning off your plan 9 system
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:17:11 -0400

For those of you new to Plan 9, when
turning off the system, you must halt the
disks manually (i.e. typing ctl-alt-del does
not do this) by typing

	disk/kfscmd halt

at a prompt and waiting for
``kfs: file system halted''
to appear on the screen.

Not doing this means the disk might not
be in a consistent state or modified data
might not have been written out yet; 
not halting the disk forces the long wait
at the ``kfs...'' when you boot the next
time while kfs checks the disk.

This was forgotten in the installation
documentation but is there now.

Russ