Comments on: 5 Linux Commands to Shutdown and Reboot the System

By: Arjun A B

Arjun A B — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:45:48 +0000

It worked on SUSE SLES 11

By: Jon Harper

Jon Harper — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 05:49:40 +0000

Now systemctl utility replaces a number of power management commands and even the shutdown command will call systemctl utility to perform the shutdown tasks.

https://linoxide.com/linux-command/examples-linux-shutdown-commands/

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:22:27 +0000

In reply to Jozin. I am so glad that you could reboot your linux system!

By: Jozin

Jozin — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:32:56 +0000

The command reboot does work and immediately rebooted my Bluestar Linux system 4.20.7 (based on Arch Linux).

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:33:26 +0000

If I’m not mistaken, reboot by itself actually does a shutdown: https://linux.die.net/man/8/reboot . You have to do reboot -f to actually get it to reboot.

By: srkrnf

srkrnf — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 20:40:35 +0000

Arrrgh so sick of finding the incorrect example of shutdown everywhere. The reboot syntax shown, on Ubuntu and probably in every flavor today, will Immediately reboot your server with no delay or warning. the +5 option is either wrong or in the wrong spot.

By: Dominic Amann

Dominic Amann — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:05:35 +0000

Important note – this only applies (AFAIKT) to x86 systems. On arm – no-worky.

By: kaytee

kaytee — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:22:27 +0000

what? 20 – 30 mins? O.o Shouldn’t it be 20 – 30 seconds?

By: sam

sam — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:29:00 +0000

In reply to sam. Its depends upon hardware and file system mounted on Linux box , If it is high end hardware and have been mounted more file system then it will 20-30 mins to come online

By: sam

sam — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:54:00 +0000

I rebooted my linux machine using command reboot -f, it went down. How long does it takes normally to start again?