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		fredoralive on July 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systemctl –Force –Force Reboot I mean, using --force twice to get different behaviour to just one --force is a bit funky, but having a way to force an ungraceful reboot from the terminal might be useful if the system is wedged in some way and you can't do a graceful reboot. (Although in many cases you could just hold the power button on the box / use ILO / use the cloud providers admin panel to similar ends).

mike_hock on July 26, 2023 [–]

Some tools do the same with --verbose, so it's not without precedent.

Of course, it's a measure of last resort, but there's not reason not to let root do it (i.e. expose an interface to the syscalls that already exist).

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