| 1 |
Howdy, |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
Last night we had some bad weather where I live and we ended up with |
| 4 |
some power problems. Ironically they went out a few hours after the |
| 5 |
storm was gone. Anyway. I had all sorts of encrypted drives open. My |
| 6 |
usual drives inside my puter plus the large 14TB external backup drive |
| 7 |
that is still copying files over. Glad my UPS held up while I closed |
| 8 |
all those drives and did a proper shutdown. Doing all that tho, it made |
| 9 |
me think about if I wasn't here to do all that. Being Linux, I'd |
| 10 |
suspect that upsmon would tell the puter to do a proper shutdown which |
| 11 |
includes unmounting the file system, closing the encrypted drives, like |
| 12 |
I do with cryptsetup close <name> etc and then shutting down. However, |
| 13 |
one has to ask, is it set up to do so by default? I manage the |
| 14 |
encrypted drives manually. I don't use the crypt services for that like |
| 15 |
people do when all of the system drive(s) is encrypted or when just |
| 16 |
/home is encrypted. My encrypted stuff is mounted within /home or for |
| 17 |
the external backups, in /mnt. Thing is, some aren't open unless I'm |
| 18 |
using them or are external. Since I do it manually, is there a tool |
| 19 |
that sees they need unmounting and closing and does it or do I need to |
| 20 |
do something to make sure it is done before a shutdown? |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
I suspect this would happen on its own but I'd like to make sure. I'd |
| 23 |
hate to mess up the file system badly on any of my drives or in a worst |
| 24 |
case scenario, brick a hard drive with some 1 in a million chance problem. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
I thought about having a drive connected, open and mounted that I don't |
| 27 |
really need and just do a shutdown, see what happens. Then again, why |
| 28 |
not ask and see if anyone else has had this happen and if things turned |
| 29 |
out OK or if there was problems. I'm lucky, most of the time I'm either |
| 30 |
home or very close by. Still, it can happen when I'm not here. I |
| 31 |
already wonder if upsmon will kick in correctly and do a proper |
| 32 |
shutdown. After all, it has never had to before. I'm running on faith |
| 33 |
that it will. I hope I'm right. |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
Thoughts? Default will take care of things? I need to take steps to be |
| 36 |
sure in case I'm not here? Personal experience? A good theory? ;-) |
| 37 |
|
| 38 |
Thanks. |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
Dale |
| 41 |
|
| 42 |
:-) :-) |
Archives