Warning: I'm a dumb newbie. I did try to Google (etc.) for an answer to the following, but failed. 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. We do occasionally have power cuts, and cleaners and others in this building occasionally unplug things. *Before* this happens, I'd like to have some idea of what it would entail with a SuSE 8.2 setup. Would I be greeted by a join-the-dots exercise ("Linux was terminated improperly; log on as root and run incomprehensibleabbreviation"), or would I be expected to know that I should, er . . . I don't know, um, run fsck perhaps? [Deep blush] I don't even know which file-system I'm using. How would I find out?