Somewhere in the dim and distant past I was told (or read) to use:
"sync; sync; sync; halt"
Presumably so you had thinking time before automatically restarting a possibly sick system.
"sync; sync; sync; halt"
Presumably so you had thinking time before automatically restarting a possibly sick system.
When your Sun is particularly hosed we used sync;sync;sync; halt to reset and (hopefully) not lose any data (sync forces OS write buffers to purge)