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On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 09:58:31 GMT Philip Webb wrote: |
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> It's never sensible to simply press the power button |
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> or your filesystems will need to check themselves on next boot. |
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This very much depends on what pressing the power button does. If acpi takes |
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over it will flush any write caches, drop to the appropriate run level, |
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remount the fs ro and shutdown the PC. No fsck will then be required. On the |
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other hand, if the power button shuts down the OS cold, all sort of ill side |
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effects like lost data can ensue and a fsck will be required. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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