Quote from: jake262144 on April 09, 2012, 08:02:07 AM

Death, when using USB drives add these two lines to your .bashrc file⁽¹⁾ and never worry about issuing the command by hand:
alias poweroff='sync ; poweroff'
alias reboot='sync ; reboot'

Notes:
(1) and to /root/.bashrc as well

I am lazy. Often with a hung or crashed rig I just flip the PSU power switch off and on (with BIOS set to always power on after AC loss). So I will stick with a manual sync just to be sure. Still I intend to move to a PXE solution eventually (too many things to do) which makes it moot.

For people who do it "right" that is a useful feature. I didn't realize you could make an alias of an existing command so I learned something. Makes me wonder why the developer of BMAT uses the non-intuitive commmand "coldreboot" (which IIRC does some housekeeping before rebooting) instead of just aliasing "reboot" and "poweroff"? Maybe he was unaware of that too?