Power off time

trixar · 12-23-2003, 06:23 AM

Hi

When i shutdown my computer using shutdown -h now i get allot of messages but the two last something like "flushing hda hdb..." "power off" o want to give more time to my harddrives to "calm down" power its cut the power.

can i change that somewere? like give it a few seconds more?
(using slackware 9.1)
Stefan

jailbait · 12-23-2003, 09:23 PM

"can i change that somewere? like give it a few seconds more?"

You can issue the sync command before you issue shutdown. That way the buffers will be flushed before you issue shutdown.

"flushing hda hdb..." "power off"

Actually the kernel should write the dirty hard drive buffers OK before it powers off. What problems are you having?

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trixar · 12-24-2003, 05:25 AM

well i think the harddrive are shutdown to fast. i want to give them a few seconds to "calm down" when i use windows and shutdown, it let the harddrive go down and waits for a few seconds and then cuts the power

jharris · 12-24-2003, 05:29 AM

If you look in /etc/rc.d/rc.6 you'll see a sleep 1 command somewhere around line 144 which is there for exactly this reason. If you want to increase the delay just increase the number. Using sleep 3 would pause for 3 seconds.

However, what makes you think you have problems? I've never seen this be an issues.

cheers

Jamie...