What Is the Difference Between Reboot and Shutdown -R?
The Title Says It All: What Is the Difference Between Executing Shutdown -R and Reboot? 1 Answer Nothing, Both of Them Do the Same Task. from the Respective...
The title says it all: What is the difference between executing shutdown -r and reboot?
1 Answer
Nothing, both of them do the same task.
From the respective man pages:
reboot, halt, poweroff
These programs allow a system administrator to reboot, halt or poweroff the system.
Requests that the system be rebooted after it has been brought down.
Without the -f option for reboot, it will gracefully terminate all processes, sending signal 15. However, using reboot -f will invoke the reboot(2) system call itself (with REBOOTCOMMAND argument passed) and directly reboots the system.
From a similar question on Unix and linux:
Internally, reboot uses shutdown -r.
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