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Merge pull request #4064 from KLVTZ/master 

website/docs: Update Teardown instructions explicitly.
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Mitchell Hashimoto 2014-08-06 10:43:36 -07:00
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@ -23,18 +23,18 @@ work. The downside is that the virtual machine still eats up your disk space,
and requires even more disk space to store all the state of the virtual
machine RAM on disk.
**Halting** the virtual machine will gracefully shut down the guest
operating system and power down the guest machine. You can use `vagrant up`
when you're ready to boot it again. The benefit of this method is that
it will cleanly shut down your machine, preserving the contents of disk,
and allowing it to be cleanly started again. The downside is that it'll
take some extra time to start from a cold boot, and the guest machine
**Halting** the virtual machine by calling `vagrant halt` will gracefully
shut down the guest operating system and power down the guest machine.
You can use `vagrant up` when you're ready to boot it again. The benefit of
this method is that it will cleanly shut down your machine, preserving the
contents of disk, and allowing it to be cleanly started again. The downside is
that it'll take some extra time to start from a cold boot, and the guest machine
still consumes disk space.
**Destroying** the virtual machine will remove all traces of the guest
machine from your system. It'll stop the guest machine, power it down,
and remove all of the guest hard disks. Again, when you're ready to work
again, just issue a `vagrant up`. The benefit of this is that _no cruft_
**Destroying** the virtual machine by calling `vagrant destroy` will remove
all traces of the guest machine from your system. It'll stop the guest machine,
power it down, and remove all of the guest hard disks. Again, when you're ready to
work again, just issue a `vagrant up`. The benefit of this is that _no cruft_
is left on your machine. The disk space and RAM consumed by the guest machine
is reclaimed and your host machine is left clean. The downside is that
`vagrant up` to get working again will take some extra time since it