[Novalug] Shutdown question

[Mark A. Metz]

I'm pretty new to Linux.


On 01/18/2012 10:22 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> On 1/13/2012 2:06 PM, Mark A. Metz wrote:
>> When that happens to me I hold down the power button until the machine
>> shuts down.  I haven't seen any ill effects from doing it.
> You must be a youngster, or at least new to Linux. In the Old Days you
> stood a good chance of Losing Data..at the very least buying yourself an
> unwanted fsck because the filesystem hadn't been unmounted cleanly.
>
> These days, Journals probably Save Your Bacon.
>
> JIM
>
> P.S. to Charlie -- I usually just type 'poweroff' at a shell, or, since
> I am Lazy: p o w TAB RET
>
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