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<p>Ddxfish moved page <a href="/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_-_Shutdown_and_Restart" class="mw-redirect" title="Raspberry Pi - Shutdown and Restart">Raspberry Pi - Shutdown and Restart</a> to <a href="/wiki/Shutdown_and_Restart_Properly_-_Raspberry_Pi" title="Shutdown and Restart Properly - Raspberry Pi">Shutdown and Restart Properly - Raspberry Pi</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>After using like 5 different Raspberry Pi&#039;s with multiple setups, OS, SD cards, and methods of restarting, I had found I was restarting and shutting down wrong and frequently destroying or losing files that were recently open or near to others in the data structure. I lost my entire first setup after 40 or so hours of learning and work due to using &#039;&#039;&#039;init 6&#039;&#039;&#039; to restart the pi.<br /> [[Category:Raspberry Pi]]<br /> You will find people that will tell you this is safe. They are correct-- most of the time. You can use the &#039;&#039;&#039;reboot&#039;&#039;&#039; command also but it does the same thing and is also unsafe.<br /> <br /> My solution was to create a restart script that stops any services I can, then kills any running programs that could interfere with my file system if forced to shutdown too early, then waits 15 seconds and uses the shutdown command after the pause. I made this script reboot.sh to avoid data corruption on my pi (it happened 4 or 5 times!). Feel free to copy and modify to your taste.<br /> <br /> echo &quot;Beginning forced shutdown script&quot;<br /> #unmount my network share (cifs)<br /> umount -f /jane<br /> #cron triggers scripts all the time on my setup, kill it!<br /> service cron stop<br /> ##service running my python buttons listen script<br /> service pybuttons stop<br /> killall python<br /> service mpd stop<br /> service ntp stop<br /> service alsa-utils stop<br /> service networking stop<br /> service ssh stop<br /> killall fbi<br /> killall samba<br /> killall mpd<br /> killall mpc<br /> killall vim<br /> killall vi<br /> killall omxplayer<br /> killall sftp-server<br /> killall python<br /> #unmount my network share (cifs) again just in case!<br /> umount -f /jane<br /> sleep 15<br /> shutdown -h -r now</div>

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