1POWEROFF(8) poweroff POWEROFF(8)
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6 poweroff, reboot, halt - Power off, reboot, or halt the machine
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9 poweroff [OPTIONS...]
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11 reboot [OPTIONS...]
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13 halt [OPTIONS...]
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16 poweroff, reboot, and halt may be used to power off, reboot, or halt
17 the machine. All three commands take the same options.
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20 The following options are understood:
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22 --help
23 Print a short help text and exit.
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25 --halt
26 Halt the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is
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29 -p, --poweroff
30 Power off the machine, when either halt or poweroff is invoked.
31 This option is ignored when reboot is invoked.
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33 --reboot
34 Reboot the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands
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37 -f, --force
38 Force immediate power-off, halt, or reboot. If specified, the
39 command does not contact the init system. In most cases,
40 filesystems are not properly unmounted before shutdown. For
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42 reboot -ff, instead of systemctl reboot -f.
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44 -w, --wtmp-only
45 Only write wtmp shutdown entry, do not actually power off, reboot,
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48 -d, --no-wtmp
49 Do not write wtmp shutdown entry.
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51 -n, --no-sync
52 Don't sync hard disks/storage media before power-off, reboot, or
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55 --no-wall
56 Do not send wall message before power-off, reboot, or halt.
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59 On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
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62 These commands are implemented in a way that preserves basic
63 compatibility with the original SysV commands. systemctl(1) verbs
64 poweroff, reboot, halt provide the same functionality with some
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67 Note that on many SysV systems halt used to be synonymous to poweroff,
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69 systemd is more accurate here, and halt results in halting the machine
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74 systemd(1), systemctl(1), shutdown(8), wall(1)
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78systemd 254 POWEROFF(8)