how to shutdown with bypassing any fsck's
 

I just loaded a new CentOS box, and doing a man shutdown noticed there's no longer a -f option to skip fsck's on shutdown, which I do need to do from time to time.

Is there a workaround to do this via a command anymore? Anyone know why they removed it?

Try just

And it should halt very fast.

That doesn't do a graceful shutdown does it

Actually, I think its the most graceful shutdown. Nothing gets hung or held up waiting for daemons to close etc. Give it a try.

but how does that tell it to skip any scheduled fsck's on reboot? i'm not understanding that part.

I have CentOS 6.4, and as you mentioned there is no -f option. So i believe, -f options will skip fsck check at next boot. In that case you can try following:

Its equivalent to

I just tried on my Virtual Machine, and it didn't do fsck check.

ah, a /fastboot like the opposite of /forcefsck. never thought there might be something like that, i'll give it a shot!