Shutting Down Safely

Although shutting down ChromeOS with an active chroot may work, it isn't recommended. Chroots on SD cards are particularly susceptible to corruption.

To cleanly umount the chroot, first exit any graphical environment you are running (how to do this depends on the graphical environment, although switching back to the Crouton tab and hitting ctrl-c should normally work), then type 'exit'. You should see something like this.

Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/jessie...
Sending SIGTERM to processes under /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/jessie...
chronos@localhost /usr/local/bin $ 

It is safe to shut down ChromeOS at this point.