[ale] Damage risk

[UnderGrid Founder]

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Michael B Golden decided to waste my bandwidth saying:
> 	I quiet often find my mother at the computer in Windoze when I
> left the computer in Linux. I ask her how she shut it down, and she
> points to the switch. Ouch. Normally the computer has been left idle for
> a few minutes. At how much risk of data corruption am I?
>=20
	I'd say you're taking a big risk... It isn't really safe to do that=20
to Windoze, let alone a multi-user, multi-tasking system... As mention'd in
another post enable the "three finger salute" in /etc/inittab and educate
your mother in it's use... much more graceful than hitting the aldeadly
switch...

> Slackware 3.5
> kernel 2.0.34
> UMSDOS file system
>=20
	I'd say you're taking a risk there... UMSDOS fs lowers the Linux fs
to the level of FAT... and as anyone knows FAT is great at screwing with yo=
ur
data... just look at the fact that you need to defrag a FAT partition regul=
arly
to keep it managable...

	Respectfully,
	Jeremy T. Bouse

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