Reboots and Restarts

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There are four options available.

Power-off

This would shut down the system and turn off the power. The system must support the power-off feature.

Reboot

Shuts down the system and then restarts the system.

Shutdown

Shuts down the system to a point at which it is safe to turn off the power. All file buffers have been flushed to disk, and all running processes have stopped. If the system supports the power-off feature, the power is also turned off.

Log off

Logs the current user out of the system.

See also

Overview

Forced reboot