Linux Tipps und Tricks

Hard reboot

This is the hard way to kick your kernel into void. No filesystem sync is done, just an ugly fast direkt reboot! You should never do this...

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
# echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

First line enables sysrq, second line sends the reboot request.

For more look at kernel.org!