The 03.06.17 at 18:08, Peter Evans wrote:
The last time I read up on these things, it was thought to be better (for the computer, anyway) to leave a computer on all the time than to turn it on and off once a day. Under that assumption, mine's left on.
Why? If the computer is not going to be used, and it is not a server, it makes much more sense to switch it off. Less electricity used, less air conditioning needed, less wear on hard disks and ventilators, less noise, less danger that cleaning staff unplug something orjust move it (very dangerous for HDs)... and more security (you can not crack an off computer), and no fsck needed.
expected to know that I should, er . . . I don't know, um, run fsck perhaps?
Right, and maybe boot from the rescue CD and give proper answers to it ;-)
[Deep blush] I don't even know which file-system I'm using. How would I find out?
Issue "mount" on a root or user console. There will be some lines like: /dev/hdb6 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) So, my root partition is reiser. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson