.TH FASTBOOT 8 "4 March 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME fastboot, fasthalt \- reboot/halt the system without checking the disks .SH SYNOPSIS .B /etc/fastboot [ .I boot-options ] .br .B /etc/fasthalt [ .I halt-options ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Fastboot and .I fasthalt are shell scripts which reboot and halt the system without checking the file systems. This is done by creating a file .IR /fastboot , then invoking the .I reboot program. The system startup script, .IR /etc/rc , looks for this file and, if present, skips the normal invocation of .IR fsck (8). .SH "SEE ALSO" halt(8), reboot(8), rc(8)