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[–] 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Just hold the power button until it gets quiet.

... shush, don't fight it, it will be over soon.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I always imagine this when hard rebooting any device

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Unless u have a ntfs shared drive which gets locked by windows if u don't restart...

    One of the main reasons why I let ot boot all the way. If nothing else, it'll mark the partition as dirty πŸ˜’. Sure, I can sudo mount my way into it, but I really have no idea if everything's OK with it. So, I have to reboot, boot into Windows, mark the partition for a consistency check, reboot, boot into Windows again so it could do the check, then reboot again and (finally!) boot into Linux πŸ˜’... I mean, just let it boot all the way the first time, it'll be over rather quickly.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Really? I think it shows the files as locked, but you can actually do whatever in root πŸ€”.

    In either case, it's just more painless to actually let it boot all the way than to interrupt the boot process.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Oh yeah, I've had that happen to me (only the one time, like a decade ago), once I realized what gives I solved it easily with GParted 'repair' or something like that (iirc?).

    Edit: ohh, I think it was a (full distro) live-boot CD that I used.

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