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Forcing a reboot or shutdown in Linux

9th February 2014
Sometimes we need to test various things in Linux that require instant and/or abrupt reboots or shutdowns.
While for reboots one can use `reboot -f`, I was not aware of a way to do a forced shutdown, until now.
The trick is to use the Magic SysRq key:
# reboot
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
# shutdown
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Happy testing! :)
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