---
name: "hard-reboot"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "minit"
version: "0.10-5"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hard-reboot"
---

# hard-reboot(8)

reboot your system immedeately

## NAME

hard-reboot - reboot your system immedeately

## SYNOPSIS

**hard-reboot** *RESTART*\
 **hard-reboot** *HALT*\
 **hard-reboot** *POWER\_OFF*

## DESCRIPTION

**hard-reboot** is used to reboot your system.

It will not shut down services, unmount filesystems or notify your users, but expects that this has already been done when it is called.

## USAGE

To prevent accidential use of this application the parameters have to be written in uppercase letters.

- *RESTART*

  restart (reboot) the system

- *HALT*

  halt the kernel

- *POWER\_OFF*

  power off the system if possible (supported by hardware)

## AUTHOR

minit was written by Felix von Leitner and can be downloaded from his page at *http://www.fefe.de/minit/*

hard-reboot was contributed by Tommi Virtanen.

This manpage was written by Erich Schubert \<erich@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.

## SEE ALSO

[minit(8)](/minit/8.md), [msvc(8)](/msvc/8.md), [pidfilehack(8)](/pidfilehack/8.md)