-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Bill Hartwell wrote: >On Thursday 15 November 2001 12:34 am, Daniel Goldin wrote: >> Everytime I restart the computer after it's turned off in an unnatural >> way--for example, power-outage--I get filesystem errors. [snip] > >Seriously, though, you are going to have this happen any time you do not >properly shut down your system before turning it off.
If he has new hardware, he can just use the shutdown option on the login screen, turn off the monitor, and walk away. If he has older hardware, he might consider upgrading to the new ext3 journaling filesystem. A proper shutdown is still best, but if there is no valuable data to be lost, ext3 is an option. I have a PC functioning as an Xterminal that I'm going to upgrade to ext3 just so I can turn it off without doing a shutdown. The gdm login screen for an Xterminal does not have a shutdown option, and if it did, it would shutdown the main system, not the Xterminal. So I have to switch to an alternate virtual terminal and start a reboot (Ctrl-Alt-F9, Ctrl-Alt-Del), then wait for the shutdown to finish and the reboot to start before I can safely turn off the box and monitor. It's a pain. I expect ext3 to allow me to avoid this process. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94329D iD8DBQE7830FpCpg3WyUI50RAtf6AJ0aqJ3H3VBR78e8XL6zUuwls4jfYACglEe0 gSESJTtWCHD8Xmish/LxqlI= =4WUy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
