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I was developing some code and had open qtcreator (software development IDE), gnome-terminal, and possibly firefox. I needed to restart to test something. So i restarted using sudo init 6. When my VirtualBox Fedora 15 VM came back up I got this great error:

... unexpected inconsistency run fsck manually fedora ...

fsck then proceeded to find lots of problems and prompted from my y or n. After running fsck the fedora system has booted up successfully.

Did sudo init 6 cause my file system to be corrupted? or was something else the culprit?

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Should be harmless, did you modify /etc/inittab or your init/rc scripts? – Stéphane Gimenez Sep 16 '11 at 20:50
no i did not edit the /etc/inittab – Trevor Boyd Smith Sep 16 '11 at 20:51
although i did delete all shared memory... even though some of the shared memory was not owned by my application. (i incorrectly thought that all the shared memory listed via ipcs -m was from my app... so that is why i killed all of them) – Trevor Boyd Smith Sep 16 '11 at 20:52
where did the error appear, inside the virtual machine or on the host system ? And where did you run sudo init 6, on the virtual machine or on the host ? – Andre Holzner Sep 17 '11 at 14:55
RE - "where did the error appear?": the error appeared when the VM was booting up. – Trevor Boyd Smith Sep 17 '11 at 20:36
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If you ran sudo init 6 in the system inside the VirtualBox and that system had corrupted files, then no, init 6 was not the cause of it. There are plenty of other possible causes though, that you may/should investigate.

If you ran sudo init 6 in the host OS, and the system inside VirtualBox had file system corruption, then yes, init 6 was the cause of that. If you suddenly reboot the host system, the virtual ones won't have the chance to umount their filesystems and shutdown properly.

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Try to make a script for that.

the script needs to do shutdown for guest OS's y reboot the host system.

If the guest OS's are running when you shutdown the system you can get data lost.

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