15 Jul
2004
15 Jul
'04
5:06 a.m.
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Donald Teed wrote:
[...]
In the case of nothing being mounted, is there any
potential
for damage to the client system by powering off this way inside
udpreceiver.post?
If you are cloning directly to a hard-disk partition, there might (as
far as I know) still be some blocks in the buffer cache that have not
been written to disk (I assume that your apm command will halt the
machine immediately, but I could be wrong).
Alternatively, you could either first issue a "sync" command before
halting the machine, or then shutdown the machine by executing the
"shutdown" command with the proper arguments (like "-h" or
"-P").
- Felix