Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Frank Fesevur wrote: >> 2013/3/23 David T-G: >>> % This would still conflict with the -H of the ones above, but I have no >>> % problem with it. Anyone against changing hibernate to -H? >>> >>> What about 'b' for hi'b'ernate? >> >> That was my original suggestion, but Anthony liked the -H better. >> >> I have given it a thought over the weekend and since the -H conflicts >> with -H of the Linux shutdown commands, I think I prefer the -b as >> short for hibernate. > > To me -b sounds like 'b;inary how about -s for 's'leep since sleep is > synonymous with hibernate.
Sleep is very definitely not synonymous with hibernate! Sleeping puts the computer in a low-power mode, but keeps the computer turned on with data in RAM. Hibernating writes the contents of the RAM to disk, then completely powers down the computer. -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity.
