saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to emerge run

init.d/shutdown.sh

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+# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+opts="-d"
+[ "${INIT_HALT}" != "HALT" ] && opts="${opts}p"
+[ "${RC_DOWN_INTERFACE}" = "yes" ] && opts="${opts}i"
+[ "${RC_DOWN_HARDDISK}" = "yes" ] && opts="${opts}h"
+
+/sbin/halt "${opts}"
+
+# hmm, if the above failed, that's kind of odd ...
+# so let's force a halt
+/sbin/halt -f