On Monday 18 April 2005 01:34 pm, A. R. wrote: > Huh? > > I have never ever had any power failures with my laptops, if the thing > is connected to the power outlet and this one fails, well, the battery at > > least gives me a chance to "gracefully" shut down the computer. >
One of the methods I used to test ext3 was just that... I removed the battery, plugged the laptop into a local outlet... booted it and started a number of various processes... when things looked real good and busy, I pulled the plug... BAM! Dead.... Plug it back into the outlet and reboot... The filesystem check would take like a second or two and It's back in business. I have yet to get a corrupted ext3 partition, even when doing that non-sense. I tried that exactly once with xfs... Upon boot up it was hosed beyond recovery... -- ****************************************************************************** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 9:26pm up 10 days, 4:33, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list