saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to emerge run

init.d/reboot.sh

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+# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+opts="-dpk"
+[ "${RC_DOWN_INTERFACE}" = "yes" ] && opts="${opts}i"
+
+/sbin/reboot "${opts}" 2>/dev/null
+
+# hmm, if the above failed, that's kind of odd ...
+# so let's force a reboot
+/sbin/reboot -f