Comments on: GNU/Linux: Emergency Restart

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:09:35 +0000

“It’s not usual but it happens.”

Yeah, like ever f’ing day.

By: yono

yono — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:53:29 +0000

that’s because they actually mean “fscking” – as in the verb “to run the fsck command”

http://linux.die.net/man/8/fsck

the point of this article is to cleanly shutdown your computer when you cannot use conventional commands or menus to do so. this prevents data corruption or an inconsistent disk state, which can sometimes be fixed by running the fsck command on the disk.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:21:33 +0000

Why do people keep spelling fist f–king: “fscking”?

By: nico

nico — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:51:10 +0000

> David

May be so may be not, but the look of awe when people look at you pressing a magical 18 key combo to reboot is priceless.

By: David

David — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:40:57 +0000

Seems to me you don’t need the first 3. “R” seems nice, though.
“SUB” should be enough. I didn’t know about “U”. I’ve been doing “SSSSSSB” for years…

By: nico

nico — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:54:45 +0000

> dsfadsfgafgf

Indeed. Luckly most laptops tend to have a smaller keyboard

> thisisabore

I’ll have to try it next time I see one. There are not much of those over here, though. Most of the kiosks are Windows (it’s fun to see the BSODs too)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:50:55 +0000

that will not work with kernels where the magic sysrq feature is not enabled

By: thisisabore

thisisabore — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:43:02 +0000

RESIUB, also remembered with the nice-to-know “Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring”.

RESIUO will Power-Off instead of rebooting, which might sometimes also be useful.

You’d be surprised how many kiosks running Linux don’t have this sequence disabled…

By: dsfadsfgafgf

dsfadsfgafgf — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:39:29 +0000

I have to keep a finger on my laptops Fn key to do this. It’s most annoying. Almost snaps my fingers.

By: Yuvi

Yuvi — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:28:45 +0000

I knew only about the B, thanks for the others.

And no, you don’t have to press Ctrl