On Tuesday 17 June 2003 02:08 am, Peter Evans wrote: <snip>
We do occasionally have power cuts, and cleaners and others in this building occasionally unplug things.
<snip> Take the advice of the others on the list and, regardless of what filesystem you're running or learning how to run fsck, spend the money (not that much I might add) on a UPS. Running fsck after a power failure, especially if your box was in the middle of some process, can be a little scarey. It virtually always works and has saved me from quite a mess (before I got the UPS), but the UPS is really failsafe and if you get one of those UPS from APC, it supports linux and will even 'halt' your box for you. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing"